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Post #1 by Quadraman
Source ForumForced to kill the IIGS?? — #1
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Post DateWed, 9 May 2007 - 00:12
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/forced-to-kill-the-iigs.8246/
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So I was thinking, the IIGS was a really great machine, so why did Apple kill it? Why did they even invent it in the first place? It always seemed to me that the IIGS was a little too close in spec to the Mac. They both used a 16 bit CPU, both used a GUI and mouse but the IIGS had a couple of advantages that I thought made it a better machine than the early Mac. It had a larger screen and was in color and it also had backwards compatibility to the older Apple II models and was cheaper than the Mac. I think Apple had no choice but to kill off the IIGS as it was becoming too powerful and intruding on Mac territory. What does everyone else think?

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