Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones

[Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no>]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

> When you think of the power of the PC what do you think of?  Do
> you really think of stuffy corporate America?  Or do you think of
> the Athlon XP processor, the Pentium IV processor, the Geforce 4
> and Radeon video cards, SoundBlaster Live! audio cards, and
> nForce chipsets?  If you think of the later, all these advances
> were driven by the home market.  Oh, and let's not forget CD-RW
> drives and DVD-ROM and writer drives.

        Well, when *I* think of PC Power, it doesn't involve MS
products, x86-architecture processors or SoundBlasters.

        Note that the Macintosh had useable colour graphics before the
PC, has *always* had a better processor architecture, has better
quality sound cards than you get from a SoundBlaster (mind you, so
do the x86 boxes), has good support for CD-RW and was the first to
be supplied with DVD writers as a standard component.

        I *do* agree that the home market is what's driving the prices
down, and the performance up --- simply because games software is so
much more demanding than business applications.

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