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		jhallenworld on Sept 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: System Description: The Apple II (1977) [pdf] To be fair, the C64 slowness was due to a mistake: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52439&sid=660bd...

CamperBob2 on Sept 19, 2015 [–]

Interesting! That's a great post. I knew they were using an IEEE-488 derived bus, but I wasn't aware of all the dirty laundry.

Woz's disk OS actually left a lot of low-hanging fruit on the tree as well, but at least the hardware wasn't burdened with so many legacy bottlenecks.

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