8 bit vs other Computers.

From: Sark <ian_primus_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Nov 24 17:15:00 2002

I've written a lot of papers on a Commodore 64. I used this over my PC
with Windows and Microsoft Word because it never crashed... That, and
even with my 1541, it still seemed to save faster than Word.

Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com

On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:51 PM, ben franchuk wrote:

> Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>
>
>> Useful in what context? I wrote nearly every paper for high school
>> and
>> college, plus a humor column [1] on an 8-bit computer [2], and I had
>> a 2nd
>> cousin (Mom's cousin) that wrote a few books on an 8-bit computer
>> [3]. Okay, you might not be able to effectively run more than one
>> application at
>> a time, but that might not be such a *bad* thing, if you want to get
>> work
>> done 8-)
>
> For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower case display,
> full keyboard (compared to the membrane keyboards of some computers)
> a good printer and at least 32k of memory, and floppy disks. The IBM
> PC had all the above features, but most 8 bit systems like S100
> bus,apple,C64 Coco did not as a base system. Sadly the PC still does
> not have a real OS,but then I am a OS/9 fan.
>
> Right now modern machines require at least 67108864* bytes of memory
> to run. What will it be in 10 years from now. The first machine I used
> had
> 4096 words of memory.(* really more but my calculator can't display 256
> * 1024 * 1024.) Somehow don't see the new computers a better machine
> for
> word processing, than the 8 bitters. For getting work done I think
> we took a wrong turn in computer design. Has anybody done a real
> feature/function compare of software with the 8/16/32 and now 64 bit
> machines?
> Ben
> All computers wait at same speed.
>
>
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