The problem any new computer platform introduced for or bought for k-12 education in the '70s, '80s, and '90s is that a school is typically a self-contained environment where everybody expects to be able to do anything they want on any machine, and, more importantly, where if you've got one or two rooms with 30 computers in them, you can't just sub 5 of those machines out for computers from a completely different platform because usually in K-12 the point of going to the computer lab is that everyone in the room is roughly speaking doing the same work. We had a few IIgses at my school when I was a kid and they were used exclusively to run 8-bit edutainment software. Idly, one thing I see a lot, and, actually experienced myself in school is that Apple IIgses were, in practice, used as faster/batteries-included IIes. (Similar to, say, how the Mac LC IIe LCPDS card worked.)Īn Apple-built 16-bit multimedia platform re-architected so it was actually faster would have been real neat. It's my understanding that an accelerated IIgs is still meaningfully slower than a Mac for a handful of architectural reasons that you really can't get around unless you drop the 8-bit compatibility or re-architect the entire system so that 8-bit functionality is subservient to the 16-bit platform.
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