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Re: Has GS ever been ported to another platfrom
In article <20000119235632.03560.00000396@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>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.
The problem with that story is that Jobs was gone in '85, before there
was even a Mac Plus.
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