>The issue of "integral part" is different. I didn't mean that the S-100
>machines had no video capability, I mean that it wasn't an integral part of
>the system because you had to install it. A manufacturer (like SOL? I
>think) might install the video for you and sell the result as a package --
>that's an interesting borderline case. But S-100 is clearly different from
>a single board (like the Apple ][ motherboard) in which the video circuitry
>can't be easily changed or removed.
>Actually, this whole "First PC" argument is getting out of control,
I agree it's getting out of control, but back to the "integral video"
question: doesn't this requirement make the IBM PC (5150) not a PC?
(I'm about to break into Eric the Half-a-Bee here...)
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Received on Fri Apr 23 1999 - 15:48:23 BST