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Article #46037Re: A low-end Mac
From: Michael D Mellinger
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 08:00
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 08:00
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In article <2529@leah.Albany.Edu> jh0576@leah.Albany.Edu (Joe Houghtaling) writes: It would seem to me that one of apple's primary considerations in building their new low-end mac would be its ability to perhaps eventually replace the apple II. An ability to run Apple II software plus some kind of color capability would be necessary. Fully integrating their product line must be a big worry to apple. Any comments? I read in a recent issue of InfoWorld that a new Apple IIgs is due out in the fall. The main difference b/w the old machine and the new machine will be that the newer one will be faster. But I wouldn't count on it being too much faster. Can't have the II series cutting into the sales of low end Macs; machines that should have been upgraded a year ago! Which is going to happen first: Apple finally decides to give more bang for the buck (faster processor, graphics support), or Sun gets some major software companies to port their Mac and IBM software to their machines? The PC and workstation markets are colliding. Which group is going to be first to get what the other has now? -Mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: A low-end Mac Message-ID: <C1-dg_2@cs.psu.edu> Date: 12 Feb 90 08:00:19 GMT References: <11221@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> <2529@leah.Albany.Edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: jh0576@leah.Albany.Edu's message of 12 Feb 90 04:25:43 GMT