Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

["M. Kilgore" <mkilgore@nospam.prysm.net>]

Edwin E. Thorne wrote in message ...
:On Sun, Apr 5, 1998 3:28 PM, Ole Voss <mailto:joker@on-line.de> wrote:

SNIP
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:>The C65 was crap... and the C64 was definitely no competition to the II!
:>We're talking Rolls Royce compared to Volkswagen here. In Germany the Cs
:>were called the Volkscomputer - how's that...
:>
:>ole
:>
: <Enclosure: vcard.vcf>
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:No, I'm not kidding.  The C64 had all the hardware features of the Apple II
:and a GUI called GEOS too.
:

The C64 was better than the Apple II in several respects. Chief among these
was the trusty ol'Vic chip that gave you hardware sprites. Having a real
music synthesizer was pretty cool, too. The C64 also had some extra hardware
ins/outs and timers that weren't on the Apple. Graphics programing is
definitely easier on the C64 then it is on the Apple II. Both systems were
somewhat troubled by system roms that never really got fixed because too
many people made the bugs a standard that neither company could really fix
without breaking existing apps.

mark