Re: Second Sight

[email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:

<snip>
> Is a PowerPC Mac running MacOS 7.x still a Mac? I think so.
> Is an OS X Mac still a Mac. Perhaps, perhaps not.
> Would a IIgs with an Intel/AMD or PowerPC cpu running GS/OS or ProDOS
> still a II? I think so.
> Is a PowerPC Mac running Bernie a II? It doesn't seem so to me.

To be really nit-picky, the main requirement for an Apple II being an
Apple II is that it came off Apple's assembly-line with an Apple II logo
on the case ;-)
Now if you could add a USB-to-7-Apple-II-expansion-slots adaptor to that
PPC running Bernie, then I guess you could call it an Apple II
*compatible*.
On the other hand, building an expansion card with a G4 or Pentium
processor on it would really be no different than installing a CP/M card
- it's still an Apple II.

also, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

<chop>
> I also really appreciate these older systems because they are "frozen
> in time", and that makes doing things with them an exercise in finesse,
> or "resource-constrained" programming (which I, personally, love).

This same resource-limitation and frozen state (actually I'd rather call
it a "glacial crawl") also make the Apple II a very accessible system
for the novice to tinker with.

<cut>
> I should probably say that my own feeling is that the //e was the
> culmination of the classic Apple II line, and the IIgs is its Rococo
> decline. 

I would have thought it more of a post-modern thing... ;-)

-SW

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