Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

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Rob Kopp <rkopp@PioneerPlanet.infi.net> wrote:
>This thread becomes soo many sour grapes.

Well of course, the Mac people cross posted their anti-Apple II propaganda
into csa2 first!  This is our newsgroup, we have a right to sour grapes.


>My grandfather once had a 1929 Packard touring car.  It was probalby the
>most beatifull car that our family ever had.  Yet I would not entertain
>the notion of holding it to contemporary standards, or of making it a
>daily driver today.  And yet, what I drive today (a Plymouth Acclaim),
>while being much more functional and usefull, can not begin to approach
>that Packard esthetically.  The Apple ][ is a rough analogy.  It seems
>like an amazingly clever design for a box concieved as a garage
>business.

We are not talking about selling Apple II Pluses in the 90's.  We are
saying if Apple kept improving the II, it had the potential to improve
to modern standards.  The Pentium evolved from the PC/XT.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a Pentium style computer, compatible with
the II, with speed, running the next generation GS/OS, having the latest
Ensoniq and lots of memory and storage?  It could have been possible, but
Apple made the wrong decisions.

>
>As for contemporary times, I think Apple is desperately trying to
>recapture market.  I think they'll throw anything on the wall to see if
>it sticks.  I don't see much connection between the current company and
>the one that eveolved in the genisis of the ][.

The current company can decide not to alienate what market it has by
dropping support for the 680X0 Macs and provide them with an upgrade
path or trade-in.

>
>I like firing up these old 8 bit boxes just for fun, nostalgia, etc. 
>I'm even debating writing some applesoft games just for fun.  
>
>Rob

Or that old 16-bit box.  Not all Apple II's are 8-bit machines!