Re: PCs are CRAP, compared to most things inculding the Speccy

[Tarquin Mills <speccyverse@ntlworld.com>]

"Edwin" <thorne25@juno.com> wrote:
> "Tarquin Mills" wrote:
> >   Even the humble original Sinclair ZX Spectrum can look down on the
> > original IBM PC.
> Sure, but who cares?
Bill Gates on television said "The British had some good computers too, 
the Sinclair ones for example - Pity they didn't run DOS though". One
of the reasons they are good is that they did not.

> > The PC has no colour or graphics, never mind high-res
> > ones.
> You mean it "had" no color or graphics.   Actually it had 16 colors, but
> you'll find new PCs far outdo anything your "Speccy' can do.
That was EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter).

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> It wasn't the first
> IBM PC that beat your "Speccy" anyway.  It was the likes of Commodore,
> Apple, Atari, and Radio Shack that beat it.
  The Sinclair ZX81 (launched in 1981) sold more than any other computer 
had every sold, at that time. While the follow up computer the 
Sinclair ZX Spectrum was even more successful. Outside of the USA where 
the Spectrum was not aimed at so much after Timex Computers closed 
down, the Spectrum easily beat the last 3. I bet that users of some 
of the above 3 systems do not say anything, because there are non of 
them left, among other reasons.
  Hi Apple, Atari, Radio Shack users. While these computer are fine, not 
everybody is rich and can afford to spend over a thousand pounds for an
Apple II. Thats many thousands of US Dollars in real terms. The Spectrum
is just as good, if not better than these 3, and was a computer for the
masses and had the greatest games.
  As for Commodore PET/Vic 20/C64, don't get me started, many flame wars
have been fort over this issue, over points like the problems with C64 
BASIC (hi-res grahics etc).

> I don't know what the "M$ PC" is, but OS/2 runs on PCs, yet you have it
> listed as something that beats PCs!  Unix also runs on PCs.
  You are missing the point, Un*x is better than M$ Windows. Portables 
would have better battery life if they used the ARM CPU (the worlds most
popular processor), but because of the M$ monopoly they can't. As I write
this on an ARM based system running RISC OS, while Intel still have not 
produced a successful RISC architecture of their own yet, i860/i960 and 
Itanium have all failed so far. An Athlon can use 75 Watts while the ARM
in this computer uses less than half a watt.
  Bill Gates meet Hermann Hauser co-founder of Acorn to persuade him to
use use M$-DOS on his popular BBC Micros. Hermann said why would I want
make such a retrograde step as that, when BBC BASIC is better than 
GW-BASIC and the BBC Micro has built in networking. Bill Gates said what
is networking, is this the man *you* want running the computer industry.

> >   There is an interesting world outside Windows to try, I hope this
> > made some people think. The Sinclair Spectrum is known as the
> > Timex/Sinclair 2068 in the USA, this had extra features like even 
> > better sound.
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                       Tarquin Mills
                       
Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign) 
http://www.planet14.sonow4u.co.uk/comp/reboot/