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In article <1791@well.UUCP> das@well.UUCP (David Shayer) writes:
>But on to the main point.  Price and performance.  The Apple IIGS costs
>$995, plus monitor and disk, which is $1600-$1900 list.  Okay, so
>maybe its $1400 at a discount.  But the Atari costs $1000, complete.
>The Apple IIGS runs at 3 MEGAHERTZ!  Thats slower than an IBM PC.
>My Bicycle can go faster than that.  It comes with 256K, expandable
>to 8 meg.  How can Apple sell a computer with one third the speed and
>one quarter the memory of an Atari 1040ST for 150% of the price?
>Is there some vital point I have missed?

One point:
You are comparing apple (heh!) and oranges. The apple II benchmarked
approx. 10% slower than the original IBM PC for a majority of 
functions ( as long as it did not require large address space). The
6502 at 1 MHz was very efficient. Clock speed alone does not
determine speed!!!


If the 16/32 bit 6502 ( I don't remember it's number) is as efficient,
and I've heard they are, then a  3MHz clock speed should be quite
respectable, perhaps as good as a 5.7 MHz effective 68000.
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