Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

[Simon Williams <*email*@*luddite.ca*>]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:34:54 GMT Declan MacLeod <declan_macleoid@hotmail.com> wrote:

 
> This is not a flame, just an expression of bewilderment...
> 
> Sorry -- I don't get it.  You're building a PC in a GS case.  Nothing 
> will change the fact that it's a PC, with all the problems and baggage 
> that comes along with it.  Then you're making it try to look like OS X?  
> I'm sorry, but it seems to me that if you want a Mac, get a Mac; if you 
> want a PC, get a PC; if you want a GS, get a GS.
> 
> Although if you ran some flavour Linux it might be a little closer.  But 
> to me anything running any version of Windows will never be "in the 
> spirit of the GS."
> 
> My 2p...
>

The ideal 'modern' GS would be a reasonably fast Power Mac (but one old 
enough to have a built-in floppy) stuffed into a GS case... install 
Bernie ][ The Rescue on a whopping big drive and plop an alias to it in
the startup folder...

Just a thought.

-- 
Simon Williams
Luddite Enterprises
http://www.luddite.ca