Re: GS+ Magazine Ceases Publication!!!

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <41t505$idk@hpax.cup.hp.com>,
Michael Mahon <mahon@nsa.hp.com> wrote:
>Alberto Roffe (roffe@delphi.com) wrote:
>
>: Softdisk (for the Apple IIe/IIc) is dead too. I announced it myself in here
>: a few weeks ago and almost no one responded anything.
>: I guess this just proves which Apple II do the majority of the netters use :/
>
>Wow, I didn't know that the 8-bit Softdisk had folded...  They haven't
>notified me (a long-time subscriber) yet.  :-7
>
>I though I should at least raise the flag for 8-bit Apple II's, since
>Alberto finds us conspicuously absent!
>
>I love the II's, but have never been able to consider the GS as a "true"
>extension to the II line.  I know it's fully compatible and all, but its
>still too much like putting a Chevy engine into a Ford Model T.  The
>6502 was a RISCy classic,

In what sense? This is, IMO, nostalgic hype.

> while the 65816 seems to be a kludgy add-on. 
>And programming for a GS is *way* too much like programming for a Mac!
>Don't get me wrong--I enjoy using modern computers with modern interfaces--
>but I love programming classic computers with simple, elegant interface
>*code*.  (The resulting interfaces may not be standard, but they have a
>coherence all their own--like the virtual "cursor diamond" IJKM.)

But you _can_ do that on the GS!

>Oh, well, I guess it's a matter of taste, and there's no sense disputing
>that!  ;->

Sure, but your reasons suck. If you'd just said "I'm happy with the
8-bitters" and/or "I hate GUIs," fine.

>-michael
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