Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[russotto@user138.dsli.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <4A9C42C7D9%news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>,
Darren Salt  <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
>I demand that Matthew Russotto may or may not have written...
>
>> In article <1Pi57.24421$JN6.5039756@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>,
>> william strutts <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
>>> than the other 16 bit computers of its day.  I think they were afraid that
>>> the 16-bit bus could back fire on them if they marketed the Mac as a
>>> 32-bit computer.
>
>> Apple DID market the Mac as a 32 bit computer for a time.
>
>They tried to market the PowerMac as the first home RISC-based machine -
>conveniently forgetting that Acorn had beaten them by nearly 7 years...

Since aside from the two Acorn users (you and Graham Nelson), few
had heard of it, they got away with that one.

(OK, maybe there were more than two.  But not many more than two)
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
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