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From: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple VS IBM
Message-ID: <2312@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 20:04:44 GMT
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Reply-To: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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BRAVO Keith!  Very well said.  
Personally, I still believe that Apple is still on the technological
edge.  I say this in comparison to IBM.  What kind of machine do/did 
they market?  First there was the PC.  When it came out, Popular 
Computing said "It defines the term 'user hostile.'"  Then what did
IBM do?  Three months after announcing a 286 based XT machine they
DROPPED the ENTIRE PC line making way for the anti-climactic announce
of the PS-2.  As far as I am concerned, the PS-2 is nothing more than
a PC with a micro channel and VGA.  
     Look at Apple.  They STILL support the Apple II after over 10 years
 Third parties are now REALLY starting to develop for the GS and the 
 system software is almost perfect.  I believe now as I did in 1980
 when I got my first Apple II that they are THE most versitale compputer
 in existance.  The Apple IIe.  No other 8bit that I know of can operate
 as fast (5Mhz with a Rocket Chip.  Enough to dust a 8-10Mhz AT) and
 with Apple's wonderful MMU it can have just about as much bank-switched
 memory as you want.  I DO intend on putting my criticism about appple
 onto my drafting board.  And on my assembler.  And when I get my degree
 I am going to send a resume to Apple (it is going to be a couple of
 years).  You bought an Apple.  Remember the reasons that you DID buy
 an Apple.  Apple goes into SO much detail with their computers.  I 
 have a friend with an ST and there are just so many little things that
 Apple threw in (like the ability to turn on and off keyboard buffering,
 adjusting the RAM drive from the control panel, EASY RAM expansion).  
 All these little things make up all the difference in the world to me,
 and I plan on sticking with my GS for as long as possible (I still
 have and use my II+)

					Collin Douglas