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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Date: 1996/10/31
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
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christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
>In article <54u4c8$285u@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes:
>|> Considering that the GS outsold the Mac in the first year,
>
>Do you have a source for those figures?
Sure, it was from Compute. They used to publish a list of the "Most
Popular Personal Computers."
>
>|> Apple should have made a new, more advance GS after two years.
>|> They could easily have built a GS that eclipsed the Mac II.
>
>But it wouldn't have come close to the Mac IIci that was on sale in
>1988.
It might have. Basically, any improvement you can cite for the Mac
should have been possible on an extended II(GS).
>|> >|> Thanks to its slots, today you can add a Second Sight card and
>|> >|> run a VGA/SVGA monitor on it too.
>
>|> >Except there isn't much software supporting that video mode. Unless
>|> >it's just line-doubling the 640x200 to 640x400, with double-height
>|> >pixels.
>
>|> Well now, if Apple didn't cancel the GS and still supported it, more
>|> software would be around.
>
>Not with sales numbers in the hundreds of thousands per year...
In the //e days, when Apple provided some support, AppleWorks eclipsed
Lotus 1-2-3 sales. 1-2-3 was the best seller before AW.