Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["Keith Olson" <spamtrap007 @ yahoo.com>]

I d/led the Archimedes emu because I heard that it ran the best
version of Elite, and it *rox*!  CLI whenever you need it, and a nice
GUI to boot.  Best of all, no M$!


"Jan Vanden Bossche" <jan80@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
3B73B43F@MailAndNews.com">news:3B73B43F@MailAndNews.com...
> >===== Original Message From russotto@user138.dsli.com (Matthew
Russotto)
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> >>They tried to market the PowerMac as the first home RISC-based
machine -
> >>conveniently forgetting that Acorn had beaten them by nearly 7
years...
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> >Since aside from the two Acorn users (you and Graham Nelson), few
> >had heard of it, they got away with that one.
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> Nope. I am neither an Acorn  Archimedes nor an Apple Mac user, but
that was
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> straight LIE from Apple, when they claimed that in the press. I
wrote to a
> professional magazine running that ad complaining about it.
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> >(OK, maybe there were more than two.  But not many more than two)
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> At least 3. And the editor of the magazine agreed with me.
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> >Matthew T. Russotto
russotto@pond.com
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> Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
> Jan-80
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> Mail me direct at JAN80@no.spam.PI.BE (remove 'no.spam.')
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Keith Olson

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