Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

["Gary R. Utter" <utter@syndicomm.com>]

In article <3d07a958@news.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:

> You give Tom WAY too much credit.  The root cause was obsolete hardware.
> People don't write software for obsolete hardware- at least not if they want
> to make money. People don't invest a lot of money in obsolete hardware with
> a declining market share.  For example, today the Mac survives only because
> the hardware is cutting edge.

Again, I accuse you of being deliberately obtuse. The Macs that were
contemporary with the Apple IIs are just as obsolete. The reason Apple
II hardware is obsolete NOW is because Apple stopped making it ten
years ago, instead of continuing to upgrade it as they did with the
Mac.

You keep hammering on the point that the hardware is obsolete, perhaps
as a means of avoiding the real point, which I have stated explicitly
several times.

> I'm a moron? 

You are either a moron or you are pretending to be stupid.

> You're the guy who thinks one odd-ball named Tom had a major
> impact on the demise of the Apple II.  That's laughable.

Tom and his associates had a SIGNIFICANT impact (as opposed to an
insignificant impact, or no impact at all). I did not say, EVER that
Tom and his cronies had a MAJOR impact. Is English your native tongue,
or are you just to poorly educated to parse a sentence properly.

> And I just told you I bought my first computer in '90, after carefully 
> considering al factors. It was a no-brainer to avoid the obsolete 8-bit 
> and 16-bit Apple II's when 32 bit machines were the standard at the 
> time.  

Your personal experience is irrelevant to what I am saying, and once
again you admit that you know nothing of what was going on in the Apple
II community at the time.

> It was a no-brainer for programmers to switch to platforms that 
> were growing instead of declining, too.  

A LOT of programmers were resisting the change with everything they
had. They were Apple II loyalists, not simply programming for the most
popular platform.

> Tom had nothing to do with it.

Tom had a lot to do with people (not just programmers, but users)
leaving the Apple II community. It really doesn't matter whether you
believe it or not.