Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote:

>"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote
>>
>> The home market did not get truly inundated with PCs until
>> the K6-2 was released by AMD.  Even Maximum PC
>> magazine noted this.  The K6-2 made sub-$1000 PCs not
>> only possible but expected and nothing has been the same
>> since.
>>
>
>The K6-2 is a great chip, and I bought a lot of 'em and still use them (a
>K6-2 300 is converting my record collection to mp3's as I type).  No doubt
>it had an effect on the PC market, but the 486-33 did too. The home market
>got really hot around the time of Windows 3.1.

Maybe it did.  I don't doubt that there was several "hot spots"
but I remember that there was a bigger one after Windows 95
and 3dfx Voodoo.  K6-2 was released at the right time.

>Note that the end of the Apple II and big problems at Apple computer
>happened at that time, around '93 as I recall.

Apple was a real mess at the time.  I remember it got a little
better after Jobs returned for his second time at Apple.