Re: Have we forgotten this newsgroup is about the _Apple2_ ????

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <CoG2u7.FDG@utstat.toronto.edu>,
Rob Tibshirani <phillip@utstat.toronto.edu> wrote:

>Well, if you could try rising above 2 year old language it may be worthwhile
>explaining some things to you. I do not view my statement as nonsense, and
>just a few years ago when the GS was posed to become a real multimedia
>force, people insisted on using it as a IIe. What can I say? I don't accept
>your anology, and frankly I'd rather not discuss issues with people who
>have a hard time using reasonable lnguage on an international public forum.

I suspect that more people share my point of view than do yours. After all the
fact that the machine has the words "Apple II" prominently displayed on the 
case will not escape the average two year old. You're the one who is alienating
a sizable portion of the readers here with your elitism. You're not getting
an apology when you're bad talking the kinds of machines that most of us still
own and use.
The point I was making and that you refuse to see is being called an Apple II
did not cause the IIgs to not live up to its potential. Apple's refusal to
give the machine adequate power and a real operating system until late in the
game are what caused it. 
Besides I don't recall any contract with the company when I got my IIgs saying 
I could not run 8 bit software on it.
I stand by my claim that it is nonsense to blame older machines for the short-
comings of the IIgs.
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Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
                                                                  -Al Bundy