Re: The Amstrad is the worst 8 Bit system

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>]

Jeff Thomas wrote:

> Before hitting the send button, remove all the links to inappropriate
> newsgroups.
>
> I gotta say, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST are 16-Bit computers, that are
> different to older 8-Bits. Comparing the two, the Amiga is always superior - I
> am not being biased here, the technical specifications of both computers
> reveals the same thing.
>
> Apple IIGS is also, 16-Bit. It pains me to say it, but the computer was
> crippled at birth by the slow processor. If it was faster, say on par with
> Amiga, and coupled with a few specialised processors, it might have been able
> to compete better. Somehow Apple feared that the computer might be better than
> Macintosh which had no colour at the time.

I can understand some of Apples decisions but others ????
I can undestand keeping the speed down when the IIgs came out. But when
they made the ROM 3 why didn't the crank it up a couple of mhz?
A bigger question, why build a IIc+ at all when it would have been much
easier to put a slotless IIgs in that case? There would have been almost
no development costs and no payments to Zip.

Wayne