Re: Has GS ever been ported to another platfrom

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>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.

We are talking about development phase.  Jobs reaction
to his Mac folks helping put mouse tools into the IIGS
was documented by the IIGS history written by Apple
insiders Jeanne DuPrau and Molly Tyson who wrote
"The Apple IIGS Book" published by Bantam Books.
There is a reason why the designed for Mac ADB ended
up on the IIGS first.  Remember, Jobs wanted the Mac
and Apple II divisions to be totally divided.  Technology
moving between the two divisions was unheard of at
the time and to give the (so called boring, as Jobs put
it) Apple II division something before the Mac was quite
a monumental event.  Those Mac designers must have
been VERY fed up with Jobs.