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Re: The Apple II is crap

Subject: Re: The Apple II is crap
From: "M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:59:23 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.atari.8bit
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Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:HEH5TBSC2MO$Ew0Q@dmc12.demon.co.uk...
> In message <InZZa.2715$wg6.265@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>, M. Pender
> <mpender@hotmail.com> writes
> >- Apple II
>
> Well, if you think being developed from a 4K, 8-bit machine into a 1Mb,
> 16-Bit machine with 15-channel stereo sound, but almost entirely
> compatible with previous versions, is abandoning... and continuing to
> produce and sell 8-bit versions until 1991, actively developing the
> hardware to reduce the chip count to 4 ICs in the last ones/LC //e
> cards...

Yes, I would call it 'abandonment' when the IIgs was discontinued without an
upgrade path.

- Mike

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