Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Andy Cadley <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jason wrote:

> Actually, a cynic would suggest that Billy boy did that just so that he
> could point at Apple and say "look!  I *said* we had competition in the
> O/s market!".  In fact, several have said that already... =-)

Whilst simultaneously focing Apple to ship IE with every Macintosh...

> > Commodore died and nobody cared to save them.
> 
> Not really true, the UK management (and most of the other branches)
> tried buy-outs, several other companies put in bids and in the end Escom
> paid a fair whack for the works and tried to make a go of it.

But (despite lots of claims about the Amiga) it was pretty obvious that
they were really only ever interested in the PC brand name.

AndyC