Re: The Apple II is crap

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <oprtsbuktcf1jixt@news2.news.adelphia.net>,
P D aka Sinclair_QL  <do.not.disturb@get.it.spammer.net> wrote:
>
>The Lisa (IIRC was later marketed as the Macintosh XL) was pretty kick-a$$ 
>machine for it's time (actually even for now... Mac OS did not get back up 
>to these kinds of specs until System 8 and later and not even then... 
>probably the only things that come close are the NeXT and OS X).

This is a a bit over-nostalgiac, I think.  System 7 had pretty much everything
Lisa 7/7 had and more, with the exception of stationery.  (Apple has
tried to re-introduce that feature a number of times but never
successfully)
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