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Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
Message-ID: <1088@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 19:36:24 EST
Article-I.D.: uhccux.1088
Posted: Sat Nov  7 19:36:24 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Nov-87 04:44:34 EST
References: <1080@uhccux.UUCP> <5814@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: U. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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In article <5814@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <1080@uhccux.UUCP> I wrote:
><     *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.

     What prompted me to write the follow-up was your comment that you 
expect programs to still be able to run under Amiga DOS 1.0 with 256K of
memory.  Just like my examples, I don't think anybody is still twiddling 
with an Amiga in that configuration, is there?  And you can't really say
that the PC was replaced by a better machine, as the XT only sported more
memory, and allowed booting from HD.  The Apple IIe threw in a vastly 
superior keyboard [relative to the II], and little more memory.  The A2000
adds more than either to their respective predecessors.  Of course, the
A2000 is still not perfect, but it is a step in the right direction.
 
>The OS/2 example is right, though. CBM and IBM have more in common
>than the last two letters of TLA, I guess.

     *Sigh*, I would have saved a bundle if IBM had something similar to 
CBM's upgrade policy (prehaps big enough a bundle that would have gotten
me an Amiga...  8=).  I hope the two companies don't have too much in
common (wonna buy my Amiga-Jr, Amiga-370, Amiga-RT, and Amiga-Portable?).
 
>	<mike

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