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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Apple IIgs forever!
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:16:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.180459.4061@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
.In article <4418.27ef895b@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
.>Now before I get tons of flame-mail, I would like to say that Apple doesn't 
.>have a grudge against the Apple II line or their users, its just that 8/16 
.>bit computers aren't profitably anymore.
.Ever hear of Nintendo?

	Do you really call the Nintendo a computer??

	Despite the fact that it has a lot of the same hardware as a computer
(and the same CPU as my favorite computer at that), it's a game machine
and not a computer.

	I would say you have to be able to program it (from "user" mode..
don't tell me to become a developer or something!) for it to be a computer.

	So my HP calculator and even the Atari 2600 (another "game machine") are
closer to a computer than the Nintendo. [The Atari 2600 comment isn't
completely serious, but hell, there was a BASIC programming cartridge!]
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