24 Nov
2002
24 Nov
'02
5:42 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
But 99% of all 8 bit machines in the 1980's were marketed as
game machines.
For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower
case display,
This would take 2K of memory space (if memory-mapped),
and therefore
could easily be accommodated by an 8 bit processor.
But 80 x 24 display cards are hard to find, but a 80x24? terminal
most likely would be used? I wonder if you can get a nice OS/9
machine still?
full keyboard
(compared to the membrane keyboards of some computers)
That has _nothing_ to do
with the processor bus width!
Heving driven Daisywheel printers and a Sanders 12/7 Varioprinter (a
multi-pass dot-matrix printer that could do _very_ near letter quality
output) from 8 bit machines, I don't see the problem either.
I never had the money for a good printer at that time.