On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
The Apple ][gs is one direction: take an old 8-bit design and update
it with a hybrid 8/16-bit chip. Interesting approach, *far* more
elegant than the Commodore 128 - but despite good graphics, great
sound and an interesting OS, it was a very expensive and deeply
compromised machine that wasn't really any competition for the ST or
the Amiga. (But sadly *was*
enough competition to threaten the Mac, so it got killed. Great shame.)
I think the one thing that killed the IIgs for me is the S-L-O-W floppy
disk performance. It is dreadfully slow, so much so that it makes the rest
of the system seem bogged down. Otherwise it seems to be a nicely capable
machine.