AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (03/14/89)
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 14:33:00 EST >From: CHEESEBALL@ALBION >Subject: How Many More Times... >It's that simple, how many more times will people twist and distort >what I say about the IIgs?!! I'm really perturbed/disturbed about >the way my thoughts have been dissected. Dave Lyons is dead wrong. I certainly disagree with you about some things, but I have not intentionally distorted or twisted your statements. If I have done it unintentionally, I apologize. >Dave, a) I was talking about Apple Works GS which is slower than >drying cow feces, and Did I ever disagree with that? AWGS 1.0 is not something you can get a whole lot of productive work done with, at leat not without a TransWarp GS (I don't have one). I have high hopes for future AWGS versions (& future System Disks, to go with it), but for now I use AppleWorks Classic, with a 1 meg desktop on the GS. >b) check out what an Amiga has to offer in the realm of entertainment >software to see how it blows the doors off the GS. I'll take your word for it. My GS has never failed to entertain me, but my idea of "entertainment" is probably a lot different from yours. I didn't guy the thing because I wanted to play a lot games. >[...] Now I'm reading that the end of the Apple II is coming before >the end of this year. [...] Two years is a ridiculous amount of time >to slip away whilst no changes occur. Think about that, Mr. Lyons. First, if you read the right things, you can read whatever you want. What you choose to believe is another thing entirely. Personally, I have never even heard of this Denise person before she said the II line is going to go away this year, and I have zero reason to take her word for it. Second, plenty of changes have occured in the last two years. Changes of the kind I care about: software. That doesn't mean that there haven't been hardware changes in the works that haven't seen the light of day yet, but I really don't care as much about the hardware as the software. There is a considerable gap still to be filled between what our present hadware can do and what it does (I'm talking mostly about desktop/toolbox stuff, not necessarily entertainment software that already goes right to the hardware). >How come several new Mac products (including the new IIcx which just >came out) have entered the market place since the introduction fo the >GS and not a thing has happened to the II (except the IIc+ which is >faster[!!] than the GS)?! [...] I don't have much of anything useful to say about the Macintosh line--there are so many different models that I have no idea what the different ones are good for. The IIc+ is faster for running 8-bit software, but not for running GS software. > An Extremely Pissed off > Dave Srinivasan --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons