Re: A85: Shells and games
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Re: A85: Shells and games
Oh, how I love an unmoderated list.
On 22 Sep 97 14:39:56 -0700 "Nick Zitzmann" <nickzman@eskimo.com> writes:
> :) 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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