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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple VS IBM and The Future
Keywords: 65xx, 80x86
Message-ID: <486@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 08:40:00 GMT
References: <8901270656.AA01616@crash.cts.com> <6258@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1392@cod.NOSC.MIL> <510@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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In article <510@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) writes:
|     It has been mentioned that the IIGS suffers because of it's attempts to
| remain compatible with the original II line. What about how the entire family
| of IBM compatibles suffers because they are based on a slow 8-bit machine? At
| least the 16-bit GS has GS/OS that fully uses it's CPU. The crowd of oooos and
| aaahhs about 80386 machines doesn't consider that there isn't a standard
| 32-bit operating system yet to take full advantage of these _expensive_
| machines.  OS/2 is only a 16-bit operating system but needs at least
| an IBM/AT type machine. Most of the clones that are cheaper than an
| Apple IIGS won't even run the 16-bit OS/2.

Oh, but there ARE 32-bit OSes for the IBM AT family.  For example, you can
pick up uPort System V/386.  I believe that there is also a 386 version of VPix
and SCO XENIX.

What I would like to see is a multiuser, multitasking environment for the
Apple II -- something people actually USE.

     [david]

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