Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

[Jerry <SNIPawanderin@yahoSNIPo.ca>]

mdj wrote:

> 
> Charlie wrote:
> 
>> With great fear and trepidation I must note that it seems your belief
>> that using compatibility as a criterion is dangerous is because the IIgs
>> wins. Emulators don't because they are not very hardware compatible.
> 
> Personally, I think the IIgs is less compatible in it's standard trim
> than a IIe is. For example, the disk controller firmware has issues
> with certain software titles. Many communications programs or  programs
> that print will not work due to the IIgs serial ports not using 6551
> ACIA's.
> 
> Of course, both these issues are fixable, but on the IIe, you don't
> need to fix them ;-)

You have to buy a disk controller and a super-serial card for a IIe, so
isn't that "fixing" the problem.  Just take out those cards, plunk them
into your IIgs, and voila, compatibility.