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Re: Apple III question (couldn't find a 3 group to ask)



On 22/7/04 12:29 am, in article 40fefc6d_5@corp.newsgroups.com,
"exegete@nunya.biz" <exegete@nunya.biz> wrote:

>> The Apple III was among other things
>> what killed the Apple II - Woz
> 
> That's hardly likely, given that the /// was killed less than a year
> after the IIe was released, and at about the same time that the //c was
> released.

Actually, computers are developed way in advance. The /// took resources
from ][ development, imagine a ][ with the ///'s colour graphics, for
example. Because of the ///, the //e still had colour fringing, 64K and no
80 column as standard.

Richard
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