Re: ProTERM 3.1 DEMO on cco.caltech.edu

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:

>But they did put out GS versions, and they have my money! Now a few hundred
>is one thing, but I've spent considerably more on vendors that still exist,
>but will never get another cent (from me). The GS was/is/ whatever an ideal

Hey, not every company is as "generous" as Apple. This sort of thing happens
when a product line winds down.

>multimedia computer, and that alone should have convinced schools. The 
>Apple IIe is not, and the future is in multimedia. That basically is a smart
>trick to show off the IIe in comparison to Mac's running QT, CD-ROM's, etc...
>or even Amiga's, MPC's, ...It's obvious that the IIe won't get any innovative
>development for the most part.

Well you can thank the marketing geniuses at Apple for that one.

> Too many companies have made a quick buck from the GS and jumped ship.

Now this I agree with. Unfortunately, most of them never really supported
the GS in the first place; they just released a few products, weren't happy
with the returns they got, and ditched it for the bigger markets. That _is_
how capitalism works, you know.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu