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Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
I demand that Matthew Russotto may or may not have written...
> In article <1Pi57.24421$JN6.5039756@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>,
> william strutts <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
>> than the other 16 bit computers of its day. I think they were afraid that
>> the 16-bit bus could back fire on them if they marketed the Mac as a
>> 32-bit computer.
> Apple DID market the Mac as a 32 bit computer for a time.
They tried to market the PowerMac as the first home RISC-based machine -
conveniently forgetting that Acorn had beaten them by nearly 7 years...
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