Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)]

In <1foskcINN3eb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Matt Ostanik writes:
>had been smart enough to decide to get a Mac that was *totally* Apple II
>compatible also, that could run all Apple II programs, including IIgs ones?

  When the mac was first introduced, this technology was beyond them.  I
think that the LC was really the first viable mac that could have an Apple
II mode since it is low cost and color.  A GS card/emulator would still be
a pretty good feat in engineering (but not impossible).

>Or at least why hasn't Apple offered II users some special trade-in deal
>to encourage them to buy Macs?  Apple effectively threw away a huge computing

  This is a good point.  I probably would have traded in my GS for a good
mac when I was at school.  Granted, I would have wanted a IIfx, but the
pricing would be tough.  I have a lot of stuff in my GS which would be hard
to 'throw away.'  I may have been able to sell some, though.

>I'm waiting for the day (I'd bet within 10 years, absolute maximum) when I
>can laugh at all the Mac users "out on the street" while Apple promotes
>whatever its next line of computers will be.

Erk, 10 years is a lot of time in the computer market.  I sure hope Apple
will be promoting a new machine by then.  However, with present/future
technology, mac emulation will probably be a lot easier.

>As for MS-DOS and Windows ... give me a break.  Yuck.  MS-DOS is so
>backwards and user unfriendly it's digusting.  And since Windows is just

OS/2 won best operating system (or something like that) at Comdex this
year.  Windows is bad, and I must admit that the mac GUI is very well
thought out and intuitive.

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1