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The extreme backward-compatibility of the PC meant that you could bit-bang to your heart's content because a 1994 PC was still strictly backward-compatible with a 1982 PC. The backward compatibility was taken to such extremes that meant that a PC with 16 MB of RAM could only use 8.3 filenames and ran out of memory because everything needed to fit into the original PC's 640 kB address space.
The Mac, on the other hand, never left any such guarantees and games made a few years earlier when programmers assumed things about screen memory layouts would break on newer machines. |
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I guess compiling large C programmes, 3D software would have been the main benefactors of the faster cpu and RAM and warez bbs's :| I love the Amiga but trying to sell the A3000 would have been difficult unless you targeted specialists. (Toaster). |
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