Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <0001HW.C23C85C5005E6427F02845B0@news.nw.centurytel.net>,
Charlie Springer  <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:03:35 -0700, Payton Byrd wrote
> (in article <AeOQh.19871$ER1.965@bignews5.bellsouth.net>):
> 
>> Jobs declared the Apple II as the best selling computer ever when the VIC-20 
>> was outselling it 10 to 1.
> 
> It is just that calling Commodore products "computers" is a little offensive. 
> Really really slow drive controllers maybe? (I had to write Forth drivers for 
> them once. Unbelievable! And IEEE interface. Aaaarggghhh!)

Whether to call a device a "computer" or not should be a matter of
terminology, not of personal feelings of offense.  The Commodore
computers certainly were more powerful than the ENIAC.  Was the ENIAC
a computer?  If so, do you feel offended by that?  If not, what would
be the minimum requirements for you to call some device a "computer"?

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