Re: Grandson of Flame-O-Rama

[rwifall@NMSU.edu (Richard Wifall)]

	Say your prayers little one
	don't forget, my son
	to include everyone.

	Tuck you in, though insane
	keep you free from flame
	till the GS-man he comes.

		Sleep with one eye open.
		Gripping your PC tight.

		Exit: Thought
		Enter: Flame
		Got no clue.
		We're off to Intel-User land.

	
>   From: dp02@Lehigh.EDU (DANIEL PERLBERGER)
>
>   I will try to address each of the points you made.  First of all, when I wa

	I will try to keep from rolling on the ground hysterical with
laughter as I read your great nuggets of wisdom.

	bwhahahaha.. Ok, well I guess I didn't try hard enough.

>   never been canceled and it would have been supported..but since it was not,
>   therefore it sucks and the companies knew it.  And you can claim all you wa

	First he (inadvertantly?) admits that he doesn't know anything
about computers but now he admits that he doesn't know anything about
marketing either.  Companies support a computer for one reason:
Money.  They don't support a computer because its fast, cool, or looks
good.  You don't see WordPerfect for Cray, or Doom for SGI Indy simply
because there is not a market.  It has nothing to do with the
capabilities of the machine.

[Lots of stuff nuked here with Dan-the-man saying  "Well, I didn't
mean it literally...  Don't you ever understand when I am talking in a
non-literal sense...  It was a figure of speech." etc..]

>   at how no one outside of your little IIGS fantasy world knows about these

	Its funny that you would mention a fantasy world because you
are so obviously living in one its almost scary.  Actually its not
that I mind you living in a fantasy world but the fact that you think
your fantasy world has something to do with reality.

>   bust on PC software Technology like the advanced NT.  Win NT is a breakthro

	"advanced NT" is an oxymoron.

>   in GUI, multitasking environments.  Unlike you blindly claim, on a proper
>   machine (at least 16 Meg of Ram, big big big hard drive , and probably at
>   least a DX2 or Pentium), it is virtually uncrashable.  That has been

	BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA..

	Let me catch my breath here.. Woah.. I haven't had that good a
laugh in quite some time.  My ribs hurt. :)
	"vitually uncrashable"  Hmmm..  You don't happen to know Dr.
Tom do you?  And what are you comparing it to?  Hmm.. I can't think of
anything you could compare Win/NT too that would make it look
"virtually uncrashable" so I guess you must just be deluded.  Heck,
linux and net/bsd are more stable and they're free.

	
>   to work on one task, and the other to work on another task.  NT is not a
>   desktop GUI, it is made for workstations.  SO no, it is not an example of b

	But just above your said that it was a breakthrough in GUI's?
I guess "not being what you are" could be considered a breakthrough but
it sounds suspiciously like VERTUAL CONVOLUTION, WAVEFORM, SYNTHESIS.

(I know that you aren't capable of understanding the previous slam and
I apologize, but it is sooooo appropriate)	

[lots of sentances that were the result of misfiring neurons removed]

> config than any PC.  Pc has a 1 voice little cip inside and the IIGS has a 15
> voice chip inside.  But most Pc's are upgraded very cheaply to much much much

	Ok, lets straighten up some facts here.

	1) The PC does not have a sound chip.  Toggling a speaker
hardly qualifies.  Heck, you can do that on a II+

	2) The GS has 32 oscillators (ie voices)

[...continued below...]

>   superior sound than a IIGS.  Fm Sound production like the IIGS is obsolete.

	You are reversing your machines here.  The IIGS has 32 voice
wave table synthesis with hardware oversampling and mixing.
	Now a soundblaster on the other hand has FM sound.

	In fact, the only common sound card on the PC market right now
that I am aware of that supports more then _2_ channel wave table
synthesis is the GUS (which I might add uses a newer version of the
very same chip that is found in every single GS)

>   THe IIGS has this one single MONO (don't even claim Stereo cause I know it
>   isn't!) sound chip...the inexpensive 16-bit sound cards of today blow away

	The IIGS has a mono output built into the computer.  However
the sound connector is capable of 8 output channels.  Yes, you heard
that right... _eight_  So while you're listening to your SoundBlaster
ASP and its awesome stereo sound I could be listening to 8 channel
surround sound from my GS.

>   IIGS little sound.  They have 16-bit CD quality sound, 44.1 MHZ playback,

	There is not any card out there for the PC that blows away the
GS sound with the possible exception of that Proteus sound card.  It
also costs >$400 dollars or so.  The only other card that even
compares is the GUS.

>   ever used its limited capabilities), some have wavetable synthesis, etc.

	Like I said above, _all_ gs'es have wavetable synthesis.
You're living in the stone ages, Mr. caveman.

>   theirold machine is the case?  Apple would have to charge basically the sam
>   amount as for a new IIGS.  The answer is that you are wrong...the IIE upgra
>   did not replace the complete motherboard...It was an UPGRADE not a replacem
>
>   The microprocessor was replaced and basically it was an addon board that
>   superceded the 8-bit bus and made it IIGS compatible.  Get you facts
>   straight...your IIGS, like I said, is nothing mroe than an upgraded 8-bit

	I know several people who have IIe's that were upgraded to
AppleIIgs's and the whole motherboard was indeed swapped.  I'm sorry
that you have to make such a fool of yourself with such blatently
incorrect information.  I even told you in email that you had no clue
about what you were talking about and you still have to go make a
mule out of yourself.  Don't say I didn't try to help you.

>   computer.  My PC is not.  There is no way of upgrading the 8088 to a 386 or

	You PC is nothing more then a 8088 on steroids.  It has the
same braindead memory segmentation/addressing scheme.  It runs the
same braindead software (can someone say "Dos 640k limit"?)  Sorry to
wake you up to reality.

[Stuff about transistors nuked.  This guy wouldn't know a transistor
if someone showed him one and said "This is a transistor"]

>   Have a great time playing your Apple II software on your IIGS...I have to g

	Thank you, I will.

>   do some real work on a real computer...something you wouldn't know about.

	What?  You bought a Apple II compatible?  congrats!

>					       Dan

	Richard

PS.  This guy sent me email in reply to my previous post saying that
he wasn't going to read unintelligent posts.  I guess that would
explain why he doesn't read his own.
--
Richard Wifall - rwifall@nmsu.edu