XPost: comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.apple2   
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   From: ticmanis@gmx.de   
      
   larry@portcommodore.com wrote:   
      
   > Commodore had the in-house guys from MOS to do the work and developed   
   > thier own chips, Atari had also lots of arcade machine experiece to get   
   > their job done.  Apple had color, but conparitively the Apple ][   
   > actually had a pretty primitive color system (it didn't greatly improve   
   > until the 80 column board)   
      
   But of course the Apple II dates to 1977, 5 years before the C64 came   
   out. That is a long time in home compter development.   
      
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