Re: What's the IIe's--Arghh!--MHz Speed?

[mairsil@my-dejanews.com]

In article <77tthp$j10$2@lynx.unm.edu>,
  buggie@ben05.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:
>
>
> Who needs speed, anyway?  I don't want to be humiliated by a computer that
> can think faster than I can!       ;-)     Steve

Apparently, the computers that use longer programs. (I remember hearing
something like the extra speed in a //c+ was to make using large text
files with Appleworks easier.)

> Jason Whorton (jason@microxl.com) wrote:
> : Hello.  The speed is 1.048 MHz or something like that.
>
> : Thank you,
> : Jason Whorton
> : http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html
>
> : kaimbridge@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
> : <77sgr7$9lv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> : > Alright, I'll ask what has probably already been asked 10^1000 time:  What
> : is
> : >the Mhz processor speed of a regular, 128K, 80-column Apple IIe?
> : > Given that the "popular" "fast" PCs are around 200 MHz these days--which
> : >would be quite a feat, just a few years ago--I'm guessing about maybe 2,3
> : or
> : >possibly 5 (10?) MHz?



Ralph Glatt

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