Re: C64/128 vs. Apple2?

[Harry Potter <maspethrose7@aol.com>]

On Dec 31 2007, 1:00 pm, David Murray <adri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is definatly an age-old argument.  However, I might be able to
> throw an angle in there that most people hadn't thought about.
>
> Back in the 1980's, I can remember in the 7th grade having a huge
> argument with a student who had an Apple IIe.  I had a Commodore
> 128.   He would constantly make fun of me for sticking up for my
> Commodore since he felt it was an inferior machine.  It was a toy
> compared to his "real" computer.  However, I felt quite the opposite.
> I had used Apples and I didn't like them.   Everytime we got into the
> argument, though, he would always stress RAM.  He'd say, "My computer
> has so much more RAM than yours."  He was convinced that this made his
> computer better.  But I couldn't care less because I knew my computer
> had so much better graphics and sound.
>

What about an REU?  It is not true on-board memory, but you can swap
data between it and on-board memory.