Re: 65020 CPU? Look this...

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Moll" <MollyBaker@Spam.GMAIL.Spam.Spam.Spam.Com> wrote in message
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> > Bah! All you whipper-snappers with your ][+, //e, //c and GS boxes! Why
back
> > in the day, you weren't a real Apple II user unless you were using,
well...
> > a real Apple II with 16K which is all the RAM a real programmer needs.
> > Integer BASIC and assembly are all you need, phooey on Applesoft (who
needs
> > FP!). And while macho power users are plenty happy with turbo cassette
> > drives, I admit my 13 sector floppy is a wonder. Them new fangled 16
sector
> > controllers just encourage programmers to write sloppier code!
>
> ROFL
>
> Well, by the time I came around, the original //e was standard, so that
> (and the enhanced //e and //c) were what I was familiar with.

Well, my point is this: all models of the Apple II series beyond the
original Apple II are evolutionary. Since Woz participated in the design of
the GS, I'd say his "hacker spirit" lives on and kicks ass in the GS. I'll
also point out that when asked which Apple II was his favorite (a common
question he has to answer at events/appearances) he replies "the Apple
//c"... which obviously is a (mostly) closed system, and seemingly contrary
to the open hardware, lids off the case, hacker-friendly slots we all love.
It would seem Woz appreciated the elegance of a well engineered machine that
did what it was designed to do, over the mere hack factor.