Re: Yay! Finally got myself a IIgs!

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
> "Wierd" is perhaps the wrong word.  It was the absence of good
> documentation of the hardware and software systems that made it
> "strange"--and you had to be an official developer to get that
> info.

Ah, ok -- sounds uncomfortable.

> Compare this to the II, for which ROM listings and schematics
> were standard equipment.

In my eyes the II was the exception from the rule, anyway.
The later models (e/c/gs) didn't have it as standard, or am I wrong?
(Not to speak about Ataris or most/all Commodores)

> And the II had a programming language built in!

This didn't stop IBM or others (Amiga, ST, Mac) - and the age of the
consumer-user dawned...

bye
Marcus