Re: why did apple go mac?

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Morel wrote in message
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>Well, as much as I like the Apple //, I have to say that improving the
>// would not have made much sense. I mean, when people are asked what
>improvements could have been made to the IIGS, they usually suggest:
>
>-       Better processors
>-       Higher screen resolution
>-       Faster system bus
>-       Improved GUI
>-       Ethernet support


Stop smoking crack. You have just listed every concievable mainstream
upgrade to ANY platform, be it the apple2 or anything else for that matter.

>all things that would make the IIGS more ...ummm... more like the
>Macintosh.

Ummm.... or more like the PC? Or the Amiga? Or maybe even the SGI Indy? This
doesn't make it anything more like the mac, it just makes it more powerful.
These things in no way constitute a convergence of 2 seperate platforms.

>I cannot see any economic sense in investing money in IIGS development
>so that the IIGS would eventually converge to a Macintosh, which Apple
>already had.


You have that backwards, it would seem. Me, I cannot see any economic sense
in investing money in the 'new' Macintosh line of computers, so that they
can become cheap imitations of the incredible FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER, which
Apple already had.

>A current iMac with Bernie is the not-so-rough equivalent of what a
>current IIGS would be if Apple had continued evolving the // line; so,
>you see, there was no need for Apple to develop it.


No. That is a not-so-rough equivalent of what a IIGS is/was. It in no way
has any resemblance to what the a2 line could be now, had things gone
differently. Please stop smoking crack, and then posting to the newsgroup.
If you emulate an old 8086 running DOS 1.0 on a 1.5ghz p4, does it show you
what the p4 running windows2000 is like? Hardly.

And to answer the original question, my theory on the abandonment of the
Apple II line of computers is this. It involves large quantities of vasoline
smeared on the top of Steve Jobs' head, pretzel-like contortions on the the
part of the afore-mentioned, and some very primitive instincts dealing with
an animal's compulsion to find warm/dark/moist places to hide, which have
been expressing themselves in Jobs' behavior ever since 1980 or so.

Thanks,
John Oyler
http://aIIethernet.tripod.com/
jojo4@va.mediaone.net

>Morel