Re: C64/128 Wolf and GS upgrade support

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

:     I wonder if current management at Apple even remembers the IIgs,
: though one thing is clear--they would never want it resurrected now
: that they've successfully killed and burried it (at least as far as
: the general public and the market are concerned).

Well all new press releases have a paragraph about how Apple ignited the
personal computer industry with the Apple II.

:     That fear about competition is stronger than ever now, look at
: how they got rid of all the Macintosh clones and returned to the
: notion of isolating the company and its products.

This is not so. Apple asked cloners to work within the ground rules they set
and those who didn't want to were told to piss off. Umax was still making 
boxes last I saw.

:     Well wait a bit, there is no doubt in my mind Apple Computer
: will declare bankruptcy or be bought out within the next several
: months. Perhaps then it will be easier to gain the rights to the

CNBC has been going on about how Apple's stock is rising so much lately,
back close to 30 points. Funny how turning a profit can help your stock.
I'd say that's becoming less likely.

: to purchase that. In some way it's kind of sad to see what has
: become of the three major computer companies of the 80's (even
: while Apple continues to live, they've become as dull a company
: as IBM).

I dunno, Apple's innovations are showing up in lots of places these days. 
ISO has chosen to base the MPEG-4 standard on quicktime, Colorsync is 
emerging as a cross platform standard, and the list goes on.
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