Re: John C Dvorak: Stupid MacUser Tricks

[sheldon@netcom.com (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <sbeattie.762207424@bradley.bradley.edu> sbeattie@helios.augustana.edu (Shawn T. Beattie) writes:
>irie@athena.mit.edu (Robert E Irie) writes:
>
>And now he's saying it was dead in 1977.  This is the computer
>that was Time's "Man of the year" in 1983.  Actually, by writing


Actually he said that the Apple II was "a dead-end loser" within a year
of it's release in 1977. And he wasn't really flaming Apple or the Apple II
with that statement. What he said was that within a year of the Apple II's
release, Commodore bought MOS technologies, the maker of the 6502, and that
caused the Apple II to be a dead end because Commodore was more interested
in squeezing out cheap garbage like the Vic 20 than improving the 6502. He
then mentions the 65816 "too little, too late".

He has a point here, if Intel had made the 6502, there would have been a
65816 in 1980. Anyway it's Dvorak's job to flame Apple and everything
Apple's ever done. That's why he's in MacUser in the first place. Other
than that I agree that the article was biased and mean-spirited.

-Sheldon

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