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In article <554@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>, ee161abt@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins) writes:
> In article <8610161420.AA15953@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> CDTAXW@IRISHMVS.BITNET writes:
> >Expect to see Applied Engineering bring out an MS-DOS card which
> >will basically "give you an MS-DOS compatible (clone) machine".
> >Mark

> Getting a II to run MS-DOS software involves attaching what is
> virtually an IBM PC clone to a II, and that is generally going to be
> more expensive than just buying a whole new IBM clone machine &
> sitting it down next to the Apple & connecting them by a cable for data
> transfer.  To me, the most dubious part of Mark's posting is the
> "very reasonable price."
> Grobbins.

This is a bit naive. The factors that made the apple ][+,e 
difficult to 'compatiblize' have been fixed with the ][gs.
The biggest stumbling block is the lame screen mapping on the
old apples. The linear screen area on the new apple with eliminate
a major problem. Other problems like memory management have also
been repaired with the new hardware. It should, therefore, be significantly
more simple to create a PC clone card for the gs than it was for the
][+,e. This, in turn will drop the price of the card. The "very
reasonable price" should be possible because now they *won't* have to
create a whole PC clone on the card, just a 8088 processor and bus interface.
Previously, one had to add memory and graphics hardware, as well as deal with
incompatible file formats and other problems.

eric