Re: Have we forgotten this newsgroup is about the _Apple2_ ????

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <Co4x29.Dv0@utstat.toronto.edu>,
Philip McDunnough <phillip@utstat.toronto.edu> wrote:

>I think we should have a GS specific newsgroup. It's always been my view that
>the GS was hurt by its association with the AppleII. In particular, the GS
>was way ahead of its time for "multimedia" applications, but people kept
>insisting on using it as an AppleII with a zillion tricks to run 50
>partitions for ProDOS.

Little hard to dissociate it with the Apple II when it says "Apple II" right on
the front. Anyone who wanted a whiz-bang GUI multimedia machine that has 
nothing to do with the II would be better off with that other kind of machine
that Apple makes. 
 
>In short, since Apple has stopped making it, we should perhaps start
>calling it a GS and have a comp.sys.GS newsgroup.

For better or worse, the IIgs is a II. No changing that. Notice I always say
IIgs and not GS. I don't think that it's time to fracture the II crowd with
"IIgs snobbery" that's been talked about in the past.

I would say that comp.sys.apple2.gs would be ok, but look at the volume in all
the csa2 groups put together. I don't think it would justify the hassle.
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