Re: What if we designed and built a "32bit" Apple II?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Michael J. Mahon (mjmahon@aol.com) writes:
> Ranando King wrote:
> 
> [I notice that have the same misgivings about replying to this
> post that I would have replying to a troll...]
> 
> <snip long wet dream about the future being
> equal to the past on steroids...>
> 
>>So is this just a pipe dream?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Mahon's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced Apple II design
> is indistinguishable from emulation."
> 
> If you don't like the speed and size constraints of the
> Apple II line, then _you don't like the Apple II line!_
> 
I was thinking along the same lines.  Once you start adding memory
and such, then you have to ask what it's being used for.  And the only
real answer is to have complicated programs.  At which point, you don't
have an Apple II.  

   Michael