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Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!
You got me! <g> That =was= a rather stupid thing for me to have said. Still,
I think that the A/// could have been a real contender if Apple had not been
so stupid with the chip sockets, and an A///+ with 65816 might have carried
on the legacy.
As for the S100 machine being the business standard, I suppose you are
right, but every computerized store I remember seeing around here had an
Apple II+ on the counter. (Then again, an S100 wouldn't have been on the
counter, would it? I may be way off base.) Also, I am not aware of an S100
equivalent of VisiCalc.
I'm to this day a staunch 8-bit guy, and I never did see a lot of difference
between the Mac and the IIgs apart from the backward-compatibility issue. I
know that about the only time I ever bothered to boot into GSOS was when I
needed to use GShrink. If Apple had been wise enough to offer a IIe card in
the early Mac days, the GS might not have done as well as it did, such as
that was.
I gave some more thought to this, and it occurs to me that apart from
anything else, the Apple II was probably doomed because of the 6502
architecture. Now that you mention it, I do remember a lot of talk in
various magazines about the superiority of the 16-bit architecture for the
very reason you cited (which I deleted from the quote.)
"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:aefjdr$1j28$1@merope.saaf.se...
> In article <3d0b2a2b_1@news3.prserv.net>,
> Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
> It's stupid to claim that machine A is a "vastly superior machine in
> every way" to machine B because it's so easy to shoot down such an
> argument: just find one single property where A isn't "vastly
> superior" to B !!!! And even if machine A is an immensely powerful
> supercomputer with every nice gadget (hardware and sofware wise) you
> can imagine, while machine B is a simple Sinclair ZX80, B still has a
> few advantages over A: portability, and low cost....
>
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