Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Thom Cherryhomes <thom.cherryhomes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:32:52 -0600
Message-ID: <CAPQyuQLTLroy1rZ43pqz0b=Ab6T6zsDCueft1U_BQ=X4LHRJYw@mail.gmail.com>
I do want to seriously bitch-slap IBM for doing such a horrible job on the
CGA card (no dual ported memory... _FOR A CARD THAT COST HUNDREDS OF
DOLLARS BY ITSELF_ )

-Thom

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM smf <smf@null.net> wrote:

> On 08/01/2019 18:48, Jim Brain wrote:
> > I choose to believe, though, that the PS/2, like the Plus/4, was
> > designed before the engineering team got involved, and the engineers
> > just lost the fight...
>
> The PS/2 gets a bad press, but it's rather undeserved.
>
> The PC clones adopted quite a few things from the PS/2 anyway, they just
> didn't skipped Micro Channel Architecture because of patents.
>
> But MCA was pretty awesome compared to ISA.
>
> It seems that IBM sucks because they didn't design something good and
> give it away for free.
>
>
>
>
Received on 2019-01-08 23:02:38

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