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- From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Status of Apple IIGS Ethernet Card?
- Message-ID: <1dfecfINNeen@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:49:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.063357.21006@leland.Stanford.EDU> <mday-061192144157@daybreak.apple.com>
- Organization: California State University, Chico
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- In article <mday-061192144157@daybreak.apple.com> mday@apple.com
- (Mark Day) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.063357.21006@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- >yucath@leland.Stanford.EDU (Cathay Kwok Tai Yu) wrote:
- >>
- >> I was wondering what was the status of the upcoming (?) Apple IIGS Ethernet
- >> card. Is it still in production/beta testing? Developments along with
- >> System Software 6.0.1?
- >
- >It's still going.... (Boing, boing, boing, just like the Energizer
- >rabbit).
- >
- >It's a very complex project -- the card is more complex than a IIe, almost
- >as complex as a IIGS. It just takes time to get things working right and
- >then tested on a reasonable variety of systems.
-
- I don't think so :-) Everyone knows that the GS is more complex than the
- Space Shuttle, ya know ;)
-
- Honestly though, I don't see how the Ethertalk card could be that complex.
- I'm not trying to dog you, I can understand if you have limited time to devote
- to such a product. I just don't see it as being "more complex than a IIe".
-
- >Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
- >mday@apple.com
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