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

[phillip@utstat.toronto.edu (Rob Tibshirani)]

In article <CoEx09.12F@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:

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> : 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.
>
>To see what an utter bunch of crap this statement is, substitute "GS" with
>"Quadra" and "AppleII" with "Mac 128" and conclude that the Mac 128 kept the
>Quadras from becoming successes by displaying the same name on the case, and 
>that Quadras are not really Macintoshes. After all, a II can run IIgs software
>about as well as a 128 can run current Mac software.

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.

>Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
>shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"

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