Re: Stupid question

[Chuck_A._Plater@mts.cc.wayne.edu (Chuck Plater)]

In article <2s9vfd$ito@phakt.usc.edu>
payn@phakt.usc.edu (Koenig Feurio) writes:

> Before there was such a thing as a Mac, Apple had a line of computers 
> called the Apple II line. The Apple II is a vastly different computer
> from the Mac (a very simplistic command-line interface, built into the
> BASIC language, for one, in place of the Mac's graphical interface).
> A typical Apple II+ has no lowercase letters; 40x24 characters, or
> 40x48 16-color graphics, or 280x192 4-color graphics; a 1MHz processor;
> 64K of RAM; one or two 140K (5-1/4" single-sided) disk drives; no hard
> drive (or a 5MB Sider)....

Good description of one of the OLDEST, yet still very functional,
Apples.
Remember when 5 meg seemed like alot of storage?  And they cost a hell
of
a lot too!  One other note, even thought the processor speed of the
6502
and 65C02 was only 1 mhz, they ran at a pretty good rate.  I forget the
details now, but due to the fact that the chip can handle more
instructions
per cycle, they actually were running faster than 1 mhz as we
understand
it today (someone help me out here with the technobabble!)

> In short, it's a very obsolete computer. However, there were lots of
> good games available for the Apple II (although looking back at them
> now, they weren't so great--what seemed great to a 12-year-old in
> 1982 looks incredibly lame to a 12-year-old in 1994, in most cases),
> and many people are nostalgic for those old games.

People only wish that the Apple II were obsolete.  The apple II plus is
still used in laboratories today as dedicated data coloctors.  The //e,
//c, //c+ are good machines for anyone to start with, and the GS is
just
as alive and well as the Mac, except for the fact that Apple does not 
make it anymore.

> The last Apple II model ever made, the Apple //gs, bears some 
> similarities to the Mac (its System 6 looks much like the Mac
> interface, it uses the same ADB keyboards and mice and SCSI
> hard drives, etc.), but it's still overall quite a different
> computer.

The only reason that the //gs and Mac have similar interfaces is
that Apple designed both of them, and if you take a look at the 
//gs finder, you will see that it has quite a few things that even Sys
7
(Mac) lacks.

I'm just waiting for a GS emulator for my mac at work, so that it can
actually do something useful.

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