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From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Concepts Apple might claim
Message-ID: <1393@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 88 20:22:17 GMT
References: <102@imspw6.UUCP>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <102@imspw6.UUCP> bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes:
>          The following  is from  my old buddy Ted Holden over at HTE...
>
>               1.   Toy keyboards which look  like  something  you'd expect
>                    from Toys  R Us  or Kmart.  Atari, which actually sells
>                    at Toys R Us, uses real keyboards.

Just to show that everyone has an opinion, I always though the atari 520's
keyboard was the hokiest thing on wheels.  True mush.  Genuine devil-spawn
from the anti-touch-typing league.

>               3.   The idea  of using  70% of a 68000 chip's compute power
>                    to maintain  screen graphics,  as a  means of achieving
>                    new levels of slowness, as well as whatever they did to
>                    achieve  the  remarkable  slowness  of  their  diskette
>                    drives.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.  The video is _maintained_ almost independantly of the
CPU, certainly no worse a penalty than the typical PC takes for separate
DRAM refresh (which the Mac video [and Atari and Amiga as well] accomplishes
as a side-effect.  It does take (surprise) a full 100% of the CPU to _draw_
the thing in the first place, just the same as any other computer without
a video display co-processor.

Bench the original 400K Apple _drives_ against a PC's 360K drive.  The Apple
drive was, and is, faster.  Apple's system does beat the crap out of the drive
though.  The floppy-based _system_ was rather sluggish.  I would hate to see
the equivalent software system running on a PC, and if you want to see a slow
floppy system, check out the original Amiga file system.  Echhh.

C'mon guys, flame Apple for real issues, not rewarmed ignorata.  Chew off 
their backsides for trying to retard progress via litigation, please!

Donning asbestos undies now...hope there aren't any nit-sized holes in them!

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