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Re: Status of Apple IIGS Ethernet Card?



In article <mday-061192144157@daybreak.apple.com> mday@apple.com 
(Mark Day) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.063357.21006@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
>yucath@leland.Stanford.EDU (Cathay Kwok Tai Yu) wrote:
>> 
>> I was wondering what was the status of the upcoming (?) Apple IIGS Ethernet
>> card.  Is it still in production/beta testing?  Developments along with
>> System Software 6.0.1?
>
>It's still going....  (Boing, boing, boing, just like the Energizer
>rabbit).
>
>It's a very complex project -- the card is more complex than a IIe, almost
>as complex as a IIGS.  It just takes time to get things working right and
>then tested on a reasonable variety of systems.

I don't think so :-)  Everyone knows that the GS is more complex than the
Space Shuttle, ya know ;)

Honestly though, I don't see how the Ethertalk card could be that complex.
I'm not trying to dog you, I can understand if you have limited time to devote
to such a product.  I just don't see it as being "more complex than a IIe".

>Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
>mday@apple.com
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