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This probably belongs in email, but I want to vent my frustration in public :)

I bit my tongue (typing fingers?) last time Philip made a remark about the
IIe hurting the GS (and not knowing or caring what a IIe) (I almost typed
in a description of the IIe built into his GS, but again I resisted the
urge), but this time I gotta speak up.

The IIe does not the hurt the GS!  Just because InTrec (InSync) writes
ProTerm for IIe, WestCode writes InWords for IIe, it does not hurt the
GS!  You may be jealous that GS versions aren't available.  But don't
begrudge the fact the IIe versions exist.  Be happy your GS can at least
run IIe programs!  The IIe is still being sold NEW, the GS is not.
There are more IIe machines than GS machines (logic: all GS machines are
IIe machines, no IIe machines are GS machines, there are x IIe only machines)

I do agree and wish some GS specific versions of those programs were avail-
able, but not to the exclusion of IIe versions.  I do most of my work on
IIe machines, because .... , well, because the IIe programs are more reliable.
I rarely reboot a IIe, but I frequently have to reboot my GS's.  Why? I
dunno (:  GS/OS supports some buggy applications? Is that good or bad?

Anyway, quit knocking the II,II+, IIe, IIc Philip!  They are very good 8-bit
machines.  And do their jobs very well.  And run Proterm and Inwords just as
well as the IIGS.  And hundreds of other applications too!

The IIe is not hurting the IIGS!  I could argue the reverse.  The IIGS is
hurting the IIe (eg, Apple seems to spend more time tweaking GS/OS than P8)
but I really don't feel that way.  The machines coexist.  I'd like to see
more 8-bit and 16-bit programs.  Apple II users must stay united.  We can't
let rifts develop between II/+/e/c users and IIgs users.  Support all Apple
II's!

  --Steven Nelson               steven-nelson@uiowa.edu