Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer

["Thomas SCOLAN" <thomas.scolan@libertysurf.fr>]

> > mmm... so you're saying that modern computer do not have a mouse,
> > overlaping windows, menus, icons, toolboxes...
>
> I said none of that, and you know it!  Do you really think that a
> computer consists of nothing but a mouse, overlapping windows, menus,
> icons and toolboxes?
I've understand what seb' (french too ?) wanted to say
That is the most important for personals computers !

>  Well, without a CPU, a bus, mass storage, etc
These are the way to made the GUI working, not the thing you work with. what
a user see and use are peripherals and GUI, not CPU or mass storage.

> you can do absolutely nothing with that stuff.
you cans absolutely do nothing productive with only hardware suc as CPU
etc...

> most of today's computers are descendants of the IBM PC.
That is for PC-Compatibles systems; do you know AS400 ? Macintosh ? Xerox
Alto ? BeBox ? Atari Hades ? PoWerPC Amiga's ? and so on ?

>  If you
> don't believe me, pick any modern PC, then try to run an old PC
> program on it
and you'll have bigs problems :
Hard drive adress have changed since IDE drives, too faster to use old
games, BIOS incompatibilities and so on.

Thomas SCOLAN (french ? yes)