Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

In article <344565C8.7E53@library.ucla.edu>,
pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

(big post lamenting over ACI's past decisions snipped....)

> Even today, some Mac fans and GS haters still _deliberately_ keep
> the GS equipped with only 1MB and a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive.
> They will never (or rather, they don't want to) see what the GS
> could really do.  They prefer to think that their Mac Plus ancestor
> was so great and powerful when the real GS was superior.
> 
> -Scott G.

"GS haters"; Scott, did it EVER occur to you that Mac people like myself
who also own GSs (and other Apple II's) wouldn't own them in the *first*
place if they "hated" them?  I mean, what would be the point???  We simply
would not waste our time with them if we hated them.  C'mon, make some
sense here.

And your other logic about a hybrid 8/16 bit CPU (which *is* what is in the
GS, it's not a full 16 bit processor no matter what anyone says) being
superior over a 68000 makes no sense.  We're talking about two different
machines here.  They can't be compared that way because they are not alike
in their CPU structure.



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