QL (was: ZX-81 Question)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Mar 25 14:15:54 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch_at_30below.com]

> Not all Basic's are created equal -- I'd still give my left
> <ahem> to be
> able to run a Basic09-like package [for OS-9] on my other
> machines... That
> was another very powerful Basic.

For a while I used Turbo Basic under MS-DOS. It was an
incredible development environment... for a BASIC ... running
under MS-DOS... Ok, so it was "passable." Still :)

I hear that DEC BASIC is good, too.

Both of the above examples are compilers, though, I think.

Anyway, the point is that things based on BASIC don't need to
be all bad. There is little difference between BASIC and many
command languages which are perfectly useable. Now, whether
one would write real software in it is another question.

> How much do you think it costs Micro$haft to make a new
> version of windows,
> compared to the number of copies they jam down our throats?

Well, I don't know about you, but nobody's ever forced me to
buy a copy of windows. As a result, I never have bought a
copy of windows ;) All my computers run other stuff, and are
much better off for it.

Give me CP/M any day.

> As as been said many times before, they only charge what the
> market will bear.

I'm sure that at least some of the people in Apple may have
been certain that they had added that much value to the drive.

> If Apple got a lot of people to buy them, and folks didn't
> complain about
> the price, <M$Rant> and Apple didn't stifle competition so
> they could jack
> up the prices even more </M$Rant> does it really matter what
> they charged
> vs. what it cost them to build?

It would have been a great opportunity for a competing company
to produce apple 2 compatible drives.

> <going OT> Most car chargers for cell phones cost between $20
> - $35 USD
> each retail - they cost the dealers between $1.95 - $2.95
> each, quantity
> 10.</going OT>

> The beauty of capitalism. <g>

It's amazing what you can get for a couple of wires and a
cigarette lighter plug.

Chris



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