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Re: The Apple II is crap

Subject: Re: The Apple II is crap
From: "M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:51:34 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.atari.8bit
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Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> The only computer company to successfully make the transition from their
> 8-bit lines to their 16/32-bit lines, with any degree of compatibility
> /at all/ was Acorn. And even then it was pretty kludged.
>

*ahem* and of course the IBM PC

> The II range had a longer run than /any/ 8-bit computer, it was the only
> machine in 1991 that had a direct lineage to the 1977 originals. And
> that was despite Apple's attempts not to just abandon it, but to
> deliberately cripple it.

No argument from me on that one.

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