Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3D0D1080.1BD3EF7E@mac.com>, Ronin Hyde  <roninhyde@mac.com> wrote:
>  Maybe it is a bit more simplistic of a view, but I tend to think it
>was the support of command line that killed the II line.

Nonsense...if the CLI is to blame, then explain how the x86 world stuck with
it for quite a bit longer and is none the worse for it today.  Hell, from
what I can see, MacOS X (with its BSD underpinnings) has just caught up with
the rest of the computing world.  WIMP interfaces aren't appropriate for
everything; trying to ram one down users' throats when it's inappropriate is
counterproductive.

>Perhaps if the IIgs make a clean break of ProDos and Dos, it would've been
>seen in a better light with management.

If it had done that, it never would've sold in anywhere near the numbers it
did.  The IIGS's four-nines compatibility (or whatever the exact number is)
with legacy software was useful for providing a migration path, as opposed
to forcing people to ditch all of their old hardware and software.  Contrast
that with what Apple makes you do now if you have older Mac hardware and you
want to upgrade to their newest stuff...there's absolutely no good reason
why you couldn't have had serial, ADB, and SCSI ports on the new Macs, other
than that Steve Jobs didn't want them and the people who work for him got
sucked into his reality-distortion field.

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