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

[phillip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <CoGrJA.BFM@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:

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>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.

I am not bad talking the AppleII. Years ago I stated here that multimedia
was a good fit for the GS. Many people agreed. HyperStudio has in fact
shown that to be the case. However, it's obvious that most people would agree
with you since they simply use the GS as a IIe with perhas as many ProDOS
partitions as they can fit in. If holding an opinion is elitism then so be
it. I still hold to my view that the AppleII cloud held back the GS.

>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.

Well that is certainly true. But they were under no pressure as people kept
using the GS as an AppleIIe, and it worked well as one.

>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.

Well, we simply have to disagree...

>Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
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