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Re:System Description: The Apple II (1977) [pdf] by jhallenworld on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:52PM (#10242718)
To be fair, the C64 slowness was due to a mistake:

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52439&sid=660bd...

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Re:System Description: The Apple II (1977) [pdf] by CamperBob2 on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:17PM (#10242922)
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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