Re: Apple ///?

[jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <5iu7v2$1pss@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
> The GS outsold the entire Mac line in the first year, but Apple
> neglected it and developed the inferior Mac Plus.  If a Mac Plus
> can turn into a PowerMac and an 8088 can turn into a Pentium PC,
> an evolved, modern GS, would be superior to today's Macs.

The Mac Plus came out before the IIgs.

Your assertion about an "evolved, modern GS" is uninformed speculation.

> Want to talk about multimedia?  The first season of Babylon 5
> and SeaQuest were done on Amigas with Video Toasters.

Yeah, and SeaQuest died and Babylon 5's special effects mostly suck.
> HP has one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings.  They are
> PC makers.

Historically, so has Apple.

> 
> The GS design is completely different from that of 8-bit Apple IIs and
> was superior in many ways to the Mac of its day, the Mac Plus.  It could,
> for example, address more memory than the Plus, had more horizontal res
> than the Plus, had slots, had a true grayscale unlike the Plus, had a
> 20-bit color palette (4096 colors) to the Plus' black and white, and had
> the first ADB bus.

The Plus was released eight months before the GS.  Chronologically
speaking, the Macintosh II comes closer to the GS.  

> 
> Now Apple's in trouble.  Will they ever learn?
> 

Apple's current troubles have almost nothing to do with the Apple II and
everything to do with their complete failure to deliver Copland in a
timely fashion.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)