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Re: Apple Computer
- Subject: Re: Apple Computer
- From: buggie@ben04.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)
- Date: 1998/06/18
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Hey, are you trying to get us mad???
"... the Apple II was a step towards the Mac..."
That's like writing that the Jews and Poles were steps towards the
thousand year reich.
The A2 is a destination, not a stopover!
Steve Buggie
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Gabriel Morales (Togega@concentric.net) wrote:
: In the time I've been reading this newsgroup I've noticed that although there
: is positive talk of Apple IIs, there seems to persist a low opinion of Apple
: Computer. Is this true, or am I wrong?
: People, the Apple II was a step towards the Mac. The Mac owes it's very
: existence to the Apple II and previous lines of computers. Apple is still very
: much an innovator- A real innovator- not like Microsoft, as a prime example.
: The Mac still offers the best graphical OS ever. And, let's not forget, that
: the Mac is the only REAL graphical computer. When Apple built the modern
: computer, it built it right from scratch; They redesigned the computer, unlike
: a PC running Windows- which is only a "mask". And this all started before the
: Mac. The IIGS has a graphical toolbox, right? Well, then let's not be so
: critical of the Mac. The only thing that Apple shouldn't have done is to make
: the Mac incompatible with the Apple II, but this really has nothing to do with
: the Mac, herself.
: Just an interesting thought...