Re: Your favourite [Commodore] enemy - the Spectrum, the Atari, the CPC, the Apple 2, or the MSX???

["Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill" <bwinmill@sympatico.ca>]

In comp.sys.apple2 Larry Anderson <foxnhare@bigvalley.net> wrote:
> Yeah, that's kinda what I've heard over the years.  Pitty, everyone says
> how expandable the Apple II platform is (with it's card slots) but
> nothing recently is done or at least heard about it.  Never hear of any
> interent related projects, speedup components, GUI OSs, or other modern
> technology interfacing/communication developments.  Given it had one of
> the better DOSs, tons of high end development tools, and hard drives,
> etc., more so than most of the other 6502 systems, it sure seems to be
> lagging behind in retro support/represnetation.  :-/

The Apple II is alive and well, it is simply difficult to contradict what
you have to say for the 8-bit models.

The Apple IIgs, which is based on the 65816, is a different story.  It
already has an excellent GUI from Apple (GS/OS), TCP/IP stack, ethernet
card, hard drive controllers (IDE and SCSI), accelerator cards, and other
goodies.  Unfortunately, most of these are left over from more prosperous
days so there has been little incentive to develop new hardware and
software.  But opportunities are abound and people take advantage of them
when the need arises.

Byron.