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Re: The Apple II is crap
- Subject: Re: The Apple II is crap
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 14 Aug 2003 17:20:55 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <bhfkv7$v194$1@hades.rz.uni-saarland.de>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:33971
Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>M. Pender wrote:
>
>>>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
>
>Huh? The PC started out as (albeit crippled) 16-bit system from the very
>beginning. Yes, the bus was 8-bit like, but the processor was internally
>16 bit which made it easy to go for real 16 bit with the XT.
And then it took it over a decade to "sideslip" into 32-bit mode after
Win95. A small matter of software inertia.
-michael
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