24 Nov
2002
24 Nov
'02
5:15 p.m.
I've written a lot of papers on a Commodore 64. I used this over my PC
with Windows and Microsoft Word because it never crashed... That, and
even with my 1541, it still seemed to save faster than Word.
Ian Primus
ian_primus(a)yahoo.com
On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:51 PM, ben franchuk wrote:
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
Useful in what context? I wrote nearly every
paper for high school
and
college, plus a humor column [1] on an 8-bit computer [2], and I had
a 2nd
cousin (Mom's cousin) that wrote a few books on an 8-bit computer
[3]. Okay, you might not be able to effectively run more than one
application at
a time, but that might not be such a *bad* thing, if you want to get
work
done 8-)
For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower case display,
full keyboard (compared to the membrane keyboards of some computers)
a good printer and at least 32k of memory, and floppy disks. The IBM
PC had all the above features, but most 8 bit systems like S100
bus,apple,C64 Coco did not as a base system. Sadly the PC still does
not have a real OS,but then I am a OS/9 fan.
Right now modern machines require at least 67108864* bytes of memory
to run. What will it be in 10 years from now. The first machine I used
had
4096 words of memory.(* really more but my calculator can't display 256
* 1024 * 1024.) Somehow don't see the new computers a better machine
for
word processing, than the 8 bitters. For getting work done I think
we took a wrong turn in computer design. Has anybody done a real
feature/function compare of software with the 8/16/32 and now 64 bit
machines?
Ben
All computers wait at same speed.