Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

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

In article <4AxHa.25762$fe.486114@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
Chuck Morris <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote in message
>qpGdnd4s_MzIe3CjXTWc-w@speakeasy.net">news:qpGdnd4s_MzIe3CjXTWc-w@speakeasy.net...
>>
>> Microsoft later successfully killed Macintosh Basic by holding the
>> Applesoft Basic license (expiring after 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days)
>> hostage.
>>
>
>I'm expecting any moment now to hear someone cite the above excerpt from
>your message and point to the significance of the numbers it contains as
>evidence of the satanic nature of Microsoft. ;-)

Given the original price of the Apple I, I think it says more about
the Satanic nature of Apple.



-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.