Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"MagerValp" <cl3polof@cling.gu.se> wrote in message
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> >>>>> "B" == Biggo  <biggo@blue-win.ch> writes:
>
> PS> However, from the very start, all PC's were delivered WITH a
> PS> socket for a numerical coprocessor. That's what I liked most about
> PS> that machine: in comparison, most other contemporary micros
> PS> (including the Apple II as well as the Apple Mac) were toys. Which
> PS> makes some sense - after all you use toys to play games....

The Mac II's could have a coprocessor so who are you fooling?
The Mac usage of the Trinitron display was a lot cooler too.  Are
you saying that all those businesses that used the Mac as a pre-press
production machine were playing with toys?  The Mac blew the PC
away in the desktop publishing and image editing business up until
the PC decided to get real in that market.

> B> Yes. And you write this stuff even when you're sober, right? So, a
> B> math coprocessor is what makes a machine professional.
>
> I'd say that 10 times the memory and 10 times the math performance
> puts the PC in the workstation class, leaving the others in the home
> computer and small business segment. Nothing strange about that.
>
Now THAT is funny.  The Mac had way more memory in 1986
than the PC did.  The PC had 640K and the Mac Plus had 1 meg
stock with the capability to go to 4 meg without any flunky memory
mapping schemes.  There didn't exist EMM or expanded or any other
flunky memory schemes for the Mac.  And that improved later when
Mac II was released.
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