CCSBWDPC@UIAMVS.BITNET (Brett Davis) (06/14/88)
>Well it looks like apple is really doing it to the // line... No support >and trying to force Mac's on us and so on.. We've been having a discussion >on Compuserve about this and might possibly want to start swamping Apple >with lots and lots of letters.. Would anyone out there be interested in >this?? If so let me know by mail so we don't clog up the network with >this.. I will post back when we start to finalize this.. -- I would not be all that concerned about Scullys comments that they have abandoned the consumer markets in which the consumers are unwilling to spend as much on buying a computer as on a TV. Apple has never sold a computer that cost less than a TV, and Apple is not interested in the consumer market where the parents buy a CHEAP TOY for the little KIDS to PLAY WITH and throw in the CLOSET when they get bored with it. This is hardly a new policy on Apples part, Apple is just trying to shut up the idiots in the AppleII press who want Apple to sell //cs in Toys-R-Us for $300 next to the Commodores and Ataris, such rumors hurt Apple// sales. As for making you buy a Macintosh, Apple is turning the IIGS into a Color Mac. Unlike others I do not think this is a crime, and when Apple introduces the faster IIGS+ with its faster ROMS, you will like the IIGS-Macintosh Interface as well.
ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (06/15/88)
In article <8806131239.aa24412@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> CCSBWDPC@UIAMVS.BITNET (Brett Davis) writes: ... > As for making you buy a Macintosh, Apple is turning the IIGS into a >Color Mac. Unlike others I do not think this is a crime, and when Apple >introduces the faster IIGS+ with its faster ROMS, you will like the >IIGS-Macintosh Interface as well. The current GS is rather far from being a color Mac. You need a Mac for a file server (even if you're only serving Apple ]['s) or if you want fast turnaround time for development (the APW cross-development environment.) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA
kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (06/17/88)
In article <8806131239.aa24412@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> CCSBWDPC@UIAMVS.BITNET (Brett Davis) writes: > As for making you buy a Macintosh, Apple is turning the IIGS into a >Color Mac. Unlike others I do not think this is a crime, and when Apple >introduces the faster IIGS+ with its faster ROMS, you will like the >IIGS-Macintosh Interface as well. It *IS* a crime, when you use a Mac II. Believe me. The GS would have to be sped up more than can be done with current technology in order to get it to run at a reasonable speed doing all those backflips to make you happy. Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.BITNET ARPA: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.CS.PSU.EDU US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)