Re: I appologize for confusing Apple with Mac

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <51cotg$k1i@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

>If I call Microsoft with a Windows 3.1 problem, how much will you bet
>against the idea that they'll not only help me, but give me serious
>help.

Last time I pulled down the help menu in Program Manager and selected About,
it said "consult your hardware manufacturer for Windows technical support".
Brilliant way of getting out of supporting their product.

>If I call Apple with a Apple //gs problem, how much will you bet that
>Apple WILL help me.  Let's even suppose this was in 1993?!!!

I've called SOS-APPL with Apple II questions and gotten answers

>So not only did Apple make a stupid decision before, it doesn't learn
>from its mistakes!  What's that quote about survival of the fittest?

Look, dude, how much capability do you want a new Powermac user to sacrifice
for the benefit of a user of a 1986 vintage Mac? Apple is to be commended for
having current software run on hardware that old for as long as it has done so.
Try running Win95 on a 1986 vintage PC.

>At the time of the release of the Mac, the market was 5:1 in favor of Apple
>2's.  If Apple had actually actively supported and PROMOTED the Apple 2,
>instead of the Mac, I think Apple, Inc. would be MUCH better off today.

>Not to mention that Mac would've gone the way of the Apple ///.

Yeah boy, Apple would be in great shape if its top of the line boxes still
used 6500 processors. It would have bitten the dust before this decade.

>: worth it.  I agree, Apple's decision to drop the Apple // line was
>: premature.  But, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DROPPED SOONER OR LATER.  So with 68K
>: support for the Macintosh family.  So it is, so it shall be.
>
>:         Or would you rather that they make software for your IIgs run on a
>: 4K Apple ][ with Integer BASIC?  They dropped support for THAT LONG before
>: the IIgs was dropped ...

Preach on Brother Beavis

>If we called Apple, Inc in '88 (to suppose a date before the //gs was dropped),
>I very much think they would've helped someone get a "4K Apple ][ w/ Int
>BASIC" running again.  Compared to most any current PC, the Apple //'s were
>VERY ROBUST machines.

Getting the same system software to run on a PCI powermac that can support
768 mb of memory and run on a Mac Plus which tops out at 4 mb is doing more
what you've just said.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado