Re: Has GS ever been ported to another platfrom

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <AUDh4.16572$pb2.1309554@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>,
shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:


>In article <20000119235632.03560.00000396@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
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>>ADB was first released on the IIGS and adopted by all later
>>Macs, for example.  The story of ADB is quite interesting.
>>ADB was designed by the Mac division, but Jobs was
>>determined not to alter the original Mac design which he
>>thought was the best.  That's why there was incremental
>>changes between the original Mac and the Mac Plus.  The
>>ADB people at the Mac division got so fed up with Jobs
>>not letting ADB onto the Mac, they went over to the Apple
>>II division, then working on the IIGS.  Together, they put
>>ADB on the Apple IIGS.  When Jobs heard of this, his
>>head blew off.  Soon after, John Sculley fired Jobs.
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>The problem with that story is that Jobs was gone in '85, before there 
>was even a Mac Plus.
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It's amazing how long some development cycles are. By 1985 Apple was already
working a Mac with a colour display and slots, which became the Macintosh II
in 1987. The Mac Plus from 1986 was really just the original Mac with memory
expansion and a SCSI port (the way it should have been released originally).


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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