Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[larry@somtel.com (Lawrance A. Schneider)]

In article <6hd7rt$1ml$1@opal.southwind.net>, shack@onyx.southwind.net
(Randy Shackelford) wrote:

> Rick Hatton (hattonr@aug.com) wrote:
> 
> : > Apple called it 100% compatible, you call it deliberately crippled. If you
> : > wanted to use A3 features, you rebooted into SOS and ran it in
native mode.
> 
> : The AII emulation was deliberately crippled. You could have only 48K of
> : memory and there were other things missing in the II emulation. Apple
> : deliberately crippled the II emulation.
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out why people say that Apple "crippled" the
> III's Apple II emulator when they made it work like an Apple ][. 

Because the designer of the III told me so at onme of the K-fests I went
to.  He stated that all computer makers "don't give away all the goodies"
when they design a new system.  Now, I must add a small caviat - I don't
at present remembe his name.  However, I met him at one of the K-fests and
he was still working for Mac Inc.

> Is that
> not what emulation means? People who spout this (the vast majority of
> which have never touched an Apple III I suspect) should be happy that it's
> possible to use IIgs features from ProDOS 8 apps, allowing the idiocy which
> is euphemistically referred to as "hybrid applications".
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