Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bu.edu!polygen!jerry From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Building a NEW computer Message-ID: <916@stewart.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 90 18:55:59 GMT References: <9011290659.AA18312@apple.com> <1990Nov30.183609.6866@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <17799@netcom.UUCP> Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Lines: 34 weird@netcom.UUCP (Richard Ney) writes: > >Factually, there is NOTHING that any other personal computing system can do, >including Macintosh and MS-DOS based systems, that an Apple ][ cannot do. > This ain't so. Even if you look only at the processors, the 680x0 and 80x86 processors of the Macs and PC's have capabilities that the 6502 (and 65816) simply lacks. This isn't bashing; this isn't flaming; this is simple fact. Then there's graphics capabilities, memory capacity, disk capacity, etc. Sure, almost anything is POSSIBLE with an Apple ][, but many things are just not PRACTICAL. Running an OS with isolated 32-bit memory spaces for each process, for example, is IMPOSSIBLE, because the processor has no support for that. Running a serious CAD or number-crunching program is POSSIBLE, but definitely not PRACTICAL. And please, don't start flaming me with statements like, "Ah, but with BlowoutBrickWall Technologies' plug-in 75MHz RISC processor card, my IIgs can outrun a Cray!". The comments I made above are all about systems running in their respective native modes. > > (Weird aka Rick Ney) > -- +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | POLYGEN CORPORATION | When I was young, I had to walk | | Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA | to school and back every day -- | | ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175 | 20 miles, uphill both ways. | +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry | | jerry@polygen.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+