saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (02/06/90)
As I've said before, if they drop Apple II compatibility, what you'll be left
with won't be an Apple II. If the IIGS won't be II-compatible, then what would
you call it? It wouldn't run Apple II software, and it certainly wouldn't run
Macintosh software. You'd wind up with a machine with a small market niche
(you couldn't bring disk drives, etc. from your older II and use it with this
machine, so it would increase the startup cost, which would take this machine
out of the affordability range of many people). Also, you'd have a drastically
reduced software base. All you people saying that Apple ought to ditch
compatibility with the classic IIs should really think twice about what you'd
have Apple do.
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