Re: Just Thinking Again...

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On 15 Feb 1997 00:17:41 GMT, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
...
>>Is it possible to accelerate the motherboard?  (Change the bus speed?)

>   Yeah-- redesign the sucker from scratch, and you might as
>well redo the slot interfaces at the same time also.
>   This comes up every few months, and some folks go off the deep end
>on YADAANA2[1]. Well, talk is cheap as to what you'd *like* to see,
>and it's nothing more than hot air. Without cold hard cash (and a good
>chunk of it, too), nothing's going to change in the Apple II
>world. And with all the *#$%#@ pirating that's going on, even that's
>starting to get to the point where the only people doing any form of
>support are doing it because they really want to; there's no way
>they'll get more than a few pennies out of it.
>[1] Yet another daydream about a new Apple 2

OK, maybe I'm not interpreting your post correctly, but it sounds
pretty hard to pirate a new model Apple // to me.  I would guess
Apple // hardware manufacturers are not in much danger from pirates,
except for maybe EPROMs or something.
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