Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:54:42 +0100, Andy Cadley wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Rubywand wrote:
>
>>      Commodore and Atari "lost the plot" in 1985 when they abandoned their
65x
> x
>> machine user bases. Neither the ST nor the Amiga was ever serious
competition
>> for PC.
>
> That's a pretty bizarre claim if ever I head one. In the mid 80's you'd
> have been hard pressed to find anyone who honestly believed the PC would
> be the all-conquering platform of choice that it is today.
>
> And had Commodore had the faintest idea of how to market and develop the
> Amiga properly it probably never would have been...
>
> AndyC

I agree when the PC came out tests using the Sieve of Eratosthenes were
performed on an Apple II and a PC. The Apple came out tops because it used 2
clock cycles to perform the operation versus IBMs four.
 

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