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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
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Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 10:15:19 EST
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In article <1080@uhccux.UUCP> cs313s02@uhccux.UUCP (Cs313s02) writes:
<     *Sigh*.  I don't see programs that will run on a 16K Apple II anymore.
<Nor any programs that will be happy with 64K on a PC.  In fact, you can't
<even do anything if you run DOS 3.20 on a 64K PC.  And OS/2 will barely
<fit on a 640K PC.  Do you really expect any of them to work?  Not I.  Just
<a sign of progress, I guess... 

But all those machines got replaced by better machine. Of course, you
could also upgrade the Apple II without buying a new computer, and you
could put more than 64K in an IBM-PC without buying a new computer.

The OS/2 example is right, though. CBM and IBM have more in common
than the last two letters of TLA, I guess.

	<mike