Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

["M. Kilgore" <mkilgore@nospam.prysm.net>]

Will Smith wrote in message <3528cf82.242299283@roch-news>...
:On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 00:17:13 -0600, "M. Kilgore"
:<mkilgore@nospam.prysm.net> wrote:
:
:|>The C64 was better than the Apple II in several respects. Chief among
these
:|>was the trusty ol'Vic chip that gave you hardware sprites. Having a real
:|>music synthesizer was pretty cool, too.
:
:oh, brother....   if you wanna get into THAT, there was the TI 99/4a,
:which was a 16-bit box (with a severely crippled built-in BASIC that
:would be lucky to qualify as shareware today!) that had a seperate CPU
:for sprites (graphics), sound, and number-crunching....  if it's
:Extended BASIC was the default (instead of an extra), then it might
:actually have done better....  maybe even to the point of getting a
:GUI some day...
:


The TI was a good lesson about what happens when you close a system up too
much. I had the chance to share a flight with one of the TI guys that had
been involved in that project. A year after they killed the 99/4a he was
still shaking his head over the experience. :-)

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