Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

["Quincy" <anewday@anewdawn.net.invalid>]

Thomas Richter wrote:

> It has rarely to do with the hardware capabilities of the systems. The
> decision makers rarely had a clue about the hardware in first place, and
> other factors are just more important (pricing, discount for education,
> long term support,...).

An Atari salesman would have sounded something like this:

   "This 'Apple' company will go bankrupt within a few years,
   Atari is a billion dollar company and will dominate the personal computer
   industry. IBM is too late to the game. Apple will soon be forgotten and
   have no impact on the future of personal computing."

The Atari 800 had terrific support chips for ye olde faithful 6502,
scanline based interrupts, sprites and a sane coloration scheme.

Woz's budget color scheme is best suited for those times when
you are drawing a picture of an ORANGE cat sitting on the
GREEN grass, against a BLUE sky, smelling a
MAGENTA colored flower.