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Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II
Bill Garber wrote:
With only very minor complaints, his post is dead on.
Well, whether I'm right or wrong or he was doesn't matter to me.
If he wants to post his views, he should IMHO start a web site of
the history of the home computer and leave this forum to what it
is intended to do.
It's easy enough to ignore it and move on.
Assist people with problems and suggestions
on getting their Apple II's running or running better.
That's one reason. It isn't the only one.
That type of
post just brings hard feelings across the many platforms, Apple
and IBM especially. Why harp on infomation that is readily available
if you only desire and if I wanted to know, I would have damned sight
gone and searched it out. Just like those who like to play their car
radios so loud you can feel the bass thumping from a block away.
If I want to hear that song, I'll surely go buy the record.
Being a newbie, I do stand corrected quite often, but I simply do not
appreciate my PC of choice being dragged down as inferior.
Bill, I'm not sure what your "PC of choice" is, but neither the Apple
II, nor the IBM were "dragged down as inferior" in that post. All he
seemed to be saying, as I understand it, was that when IBM designed the
PC they looked to the best PC currently on the market: The Apple IIPlus,
and tried to build a new machine with the best features, with some
improvements.
Frankly, the PC is better than the II, in certain respects (coming
later, it should be), and not as good, or no improvements in others.
"You can't beat something with nothing" and IBM sought to beat the Apple
II. Slots (S-100/Apple II), OS (CP/M clone - CP/M being the business OS
of the time), MS BASIC (the standard), open architecture (Apple II);
clearly IBM was hoping to have the best of everything, so they could
capture what business market there was in the micro world. They might
not have succeeded if the /// wasn't such a disaster.
It
plainly is not, and everyone knows it. These types of posts are a
futile attempt at keeping alive a basically hobby oriented computer
line that had it's good days and they WERE great days. Can't we
simply enjoy them while they are still a little popular? Can we
not band together and keep them going as what they are, not what
we'd like to think they are?
BTW, the more argument I receive, the more I respond.
So, go for it. It's a free forum. Perpetuate the thread you wish had
never started.
Roy
This is my feeling in a nutshell. Use them, abuse them, that's
your choice, but give every brand the respect it should deserve.
Thank you,
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
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