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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: "Sam Franklin" <frankl1@korvair.com>
- Date: 1996/10/31
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Korvair Inc.
- References: <nevin-ya023180002810961239520001@192.12.69.9> <AE9AD8C6-8CD03@198.68.42.193> <55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>
Your "superior" IIgs (dwarfed in features and in the marketplace by the
Amiga and Atari ST -- not to mention the Mac itself) ran at a mere 2Mhz.
Also, in 1986 Sculley was running the company (he introduced the Apple
IIgeewhiz).
Sam
pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote in article
<55asnc$1n4o@uni.library.ucla.edu>...
> That's what I mean. In 1986, the Mac was selling very badly. Apple was
> surviving only based on Apple II sales. But Steve Jobs kept pushing the
> Mac, against all business reason. Even after the superior IIGS came out.