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Even the base-model Amiga had almost double the CPU speed of the IBM (7 MHz vs. 5), four times the RAM (512 KB vs. 128 KB), and a full 32-bit processor (albeit
by rcoder 17y ago
Even the base-model Amiga had almost double the CPU speed of the IBM (7 MHz vs. 5), four times the RAM (512 KB vs. 128 KB), and a full 32-bit processor (albeit with a 24-bit address space). The Amiga was also released four years later than the PCjr. That's an entire generation in personal computer hardware.
Regardless, I'm not sure where you picked up a sense of "parody" from the original article. I see an almost touching devotion to make something useful out of a dead, useless platform. It's ridiculous, silly, and probably a waste of time, but it made me smile anyway, and brought back memories of all the time I spend playing with my own PCjr in my parents' basement 20 years ago.
- zandorg 17y agoI guess it's because it requires various bits of hard-to-get hardware and uses a separate modern PC as a kind of IMP (Interface Message Processor - in other words, an Internet router). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor But if this had been a C64 (I had a C64 once and never had a PC Jr) I guess I would have been kinder. ;-)
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- spc476 17y agoTechnically, the other PC isn't even needed, as you can get a TCP/IP stack for the PCjr: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ (and at one point, you could even telnet to this guy's PCjr, although that was for testing purposes).
- bitwize 17y agoPCjr: March 1984 Amiga: July 1985 Four years, eh? :)