Re: ber IIgs

["IceWeasel" <noaddress@for.you>]

<dev.null@personal.information.com> wrote in message
news:bGK16.28875$Z33.3083164@news0.telusplanet.net...
> I think the difference between emulation and hardware is that, by using
the
> original hardware, we are making something of the old machine.  You can
not

> would not be the same.  A continually updated Apple II would be no
differnt
> from the Macintosh or Intel boxes which we use today.  Those machines are
> common stock, and you can do pretty much anything which can be done on
> computers today.  It is not as challenging, and it is not as fun, to do
> things which come too easily.  (Easily, sure.  But too easily?)

Then, do you suppose the IIgs would still be popular today if the Apple II
hadn't been eliminated in favour of the Macintosh?  How essential was the
computer's death in preserving it in this bizarre sort of afterlife?  If it
had been as successful as the x86 platform, would the IIgs look to us like
an 8088 XT?