ten year rule.

From: Max Eskin <kurtkilgor_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 11:57:46 1999

Hans Franke wrote:
> But we can agree that he is already _old_ and outdated ? The
> situation is a bit like in the mid 80s, when people, that
> bought PETs where considered as 'stupid' or poor - why not a
> C64 or an Atari ST ? Or who cared about altair in 1988 ? They
> where just old (about 10 years), outdated and slow computers.

I think that there is a slight difference. The PET or whatever is
distinctive. If you sat down behind a startup screen of a PET, you could
tell it's a PET (or at least a CBM machine). If you sat behind a startup
screen of a PC, you could at most tell the company that made it, if you
didn't miss the POST readout. If you missed it, you would know that it's
running M$ software and that's it. This is why I doubt that anyone would
be nostalgic over a specific clone; because they are all very similar
and the differences are almost always more trouble than they're worth.
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 11:57:46 GMT