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

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Philip McDunnough (phillip@utstat.toronto.edu) wrote:
: In article <2ohle6$2ue@paris.ics.uci.edu> jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) writes:
: [ ]

: >I don't see the point of this discussion.  We are Apple II here and proud.
[ blap ]

: The point is that a GS is not an AppleII. I simply said that the character
: of the GS did and does not fit in with the AppleII, and it was hurt in the
: past by association. That does not make the AppleII less useful. It 
: survived the GS...The GS never reached its potential because people kept
: thinking of it as an AppleII.
:  

So what are the non-hardware characteristics of the IIGS that make it a
world apart and different from a traditional Apple II?

Joseph
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