Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, if I'm not mistaken, the 68000 went to the moon and landed in my Atari 1040 ST ;-) Faster than any 286 I was using at work for word processing using a piece of soft that had been created for one of the major national neswpapers here and, at least here again, there was a suite of educational sofware that I don't think has been matched since - with just a tiny floppy disk and so little RAM ... those guy were programmers ... My elder kids learnt two of the R's thanks to it. The only competitor in that respect was the Amiga, but the software offering was poor in comparison. Ph Le 15 f?vr. 13 ? 19:37, Richard Man a ?crit : > The "best" Tandy computer was the "Color Computer." It has the > unusual but > highly sophisticated 6809E. Its instruction set is a thing of beauty > and > has a cult following for many years afterward. In terms of > "cultability," > it even bests the 68000 used in the Lisa/Mac/Sun workstation. I > think the > closest camera analogy would be a full size 35mmm compact with a small > sharp lens :-) > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE