Re: A85: Shells and games


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Re: A85: Shells and games



On Sun, Sep 21, 1997 6:21 AM, Matthew R Price <mailto:pricem@juno.com>
wrote:
 :) Oh yeah, Slot 1 is compatible with the soldered down 8088s.  MFM drives
 :) can be plugged into any computer that is less then a decade old. 
 :) Instruction sets should be scrapped yearly to alienate those with older
 :) machines.  The ISA bus is just a lite version of EISA.  Keyboards are
 :) unversal across all generations.  

But since when did the PCs eradicate DMA & IRQ addressing? When did the CPU
ever go through a drastic change? (The Pentium is, at its heart, a fast
80286. The 68000 & PPC 604, OTOH, are completely different chips.) PCs
weren't even made to display sound & graphics or use SCSI busses, those had
to be added on through video & audio cards.

Moreover, why do modern PC operating systems still run on decade-old PCs?
Just try running System 8 on a decade-old Mac - you can't.

 :) Why can't your Mac run Rhapsody?  Bottom line: you bought your Mac
 :) because you didn't want to know what you are talking about.

Because only PCI-based Macs can run Rhapsody, and PCI-based Macs use a
totally different strain of hardware. (The PCI bus isn't the only hardware
change in the new strain.)

My Mac is based on the NuBus strain of hardware, and can't run either BeOS
or Rhapsody... <8*(

 :) (my signature is anti MicroSnot, not anti PC)

If it wasn't for Microsoft, who would use a PC? <;*)

(Yes, I like Linux, too. But Linux also runs on PPC machines, including
Macs, so there's no real point in just using PCs for Linux anymore.)

Nick Zitzmann                             No WWW page at this time.
(Macintosh Forever! PSX Rules!)
                                          Windows 95:
                                          The most expensive solitare game
                                           that money can buy.




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