XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: gracee@south.org   
      
   Brock McNuggets  wrote in   
   news:694342a2$0$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:   
      
   > On Dec 17, 2025 at 9:17:03 AM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote   
   > <5IA0R.416292$w6H4.248666@fx11.iad>:   
   >   
   >> On 12/16/25 9:26 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >>> On Dec 16, 2025 at 1:50:48 PM MST, "CrudeSausage" wrote   
   >>> <6941c628$0$21959$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Nope.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Because you haven't even supported your first claim that:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 'Jobs wanted to give people the IMPRESSION that their machines   
   >>>>> were premium by charging more.'   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Actually building premium machines isn't giving people an   
   >>>>> impression that they're premium.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Apple ][ was built better than the plastic competition, I'll   
   >>>> give you that much. Nevertheless, it was capable of much less than   
   >>>> even Atari's machines.   
   >>>   
   >>> I am NOT an expert in the others, but from what I saw nothing   
   >>> compared to the old AppleWorks. Of course that is just one class of   
   >>> software.   
   >>   
   >> AppleWorks was a remarkable achievement.  It's par for the course,   
   >> now, for an OS to offer certain things, but in the past, it had to be   
   >> fashioned by any means necessary.  That was why I ended up being glad   
   >> my mom bought the used Apple IIe we had, because I learned so much   
   >> about self-reliance in programming on it.   
   >   
   > Tha and a bunch of EDU software is what drew me to the Apple IIe, but   
   > also familiarity. Just happened to be what I was around. I did play   
   > with some other systems of the era but not as much. I first saw   
   > Lemmings on an Amiga and had fun with that.   
      
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