Re: How will the Apple II survive?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:c6frk7$2t3j$1@merope.saaf.se...
: In article <6l5l80drm2okuqucaubpp6q58a6ifp1ofo@4ax.com>,
: Jeff Blakeney  <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:
:
: > However, PC and Mac users today want the same thing.  They
want to
: > continue to get newer and improved machines.  They want
faster
: > machines with better graphics and sound and more computing
power.
: > Personally, I have a Pentium III with an ATI
All-In-Wonder-128 video
: > card, a Creative Labs sound card (can never remember which
one) and a
: > 40 GB hard drive and I want a Pentium 4 with a Radeon based
ATI
: > All-In-Wonder, an Audigy sound card and at least a 120 GB
hard drive.
: >
: > Why should that desire be any different for Apple II users.
:
: Because the Apple II is no longer a modern machine.
:
: Suppose you had in your possession a specimen of one of the
Wright
: brother's airplanes.  Suppose you said e.g. "however Boeing and
: McDouglas flyers today want the same thing: they want
supersonic
: flight. Why should that desire be any different for flyers of a
: Wright Brother's airplane?".
:
: [snip]
:
: If you want a modern computer with fast processor, lots of RAM
: and a huge harddisk, abandon the Apple II and switch to a
modern
: computer.
:
: But if you want an Apple II, accept the limitations it has.

To further Paul's analogy, what some want is a Wright
Brother's airplane with a Boeing 747 engine. Not going
to happen. OTOH, to me, running an emulator on a faster
machine is in effect the same as loading the Wright Bros.
plane into a Boeing 747 and running it's engine while
riding in the jet at 300-500 MPH.

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