Re: Awks stuff

[Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net>]

> No amount of upgrades, hardware or software, will make *ANY* Apple II half
> as functional as the multitude of $50 486s or Macs flooding the used
> markets now. For all intents and purposes, the A2 IS dead.

	No machine is obsolete as long as one can find a use for it. "A hammer today
is a hammer tommorrow." There will <<always>> be a use for an Apple //. As
long as the nail isn't too big, the old hammer'll still work!

> It is a bit sad that the A2 won't see much more commercial development
> because of "pirates".

	Piracy is not a good excuse. They don't develop because they don't want to.

>Obsolescence is ineviable for all current computers. That is why we
> are interested in an upgrade path.

	What if the upgrade already exists? What if the software lives on in
ever-better emulators like Bernie on the Mac?