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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Ignorance of Commodore by media incredible
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 22:57:28 GMT
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- Paul Allen Panks (pap@dana.ucc.nau.edu) wrote:
- : with them. Let's rewrite it as:
-
- : ENIAC -> Altair -> Apple II -> CP/M -> DOS -> IBM PC -> Commodore 64 ->
- : Macintosh -> Amiga -> IBM Clones ->Windows -> CD-ROM -> Pentium ->
- : Windows 95
-
- : That sounds alot better...
-
- I don't think it's right at all. Much as I think the Amiga is a terrific
- machine that may never be paralleled, etc., I would never say "It's 4
- rungs above platform X." It's crass oversimplification to leave out the
- contributions of the dozens of companies who usually get left out of this
- sort of thing.
-
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