Re: Has GS ever been ported to another platfrom

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:

>As a new user of GS I am amazed at the elegance of the design.  Question: has 
>a varriant designed for the Wintel platform or the Mac hardware ever been 
>written?

Are you talking about GS/OS or GS architecture?  GS/OS has
never been ported.  What a shame.  GNO/ME is a port of the
UNIX command line and preemtive time slicing for the IIGS.

Some of the IIGS architecture showed up in the Macs of the
post-Jobs Apple.

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 Apple IIGS was released on schedule.  With Jobs
out of the picture, many of the successful designs first
seen on the IIGS was adopted by the Mac.  Color, ADB,
slots for exapansion, more memory capability, and
slowly but surely, better sound.  Also, the separation of
the monitor from the CPU case.  The first of these new
Macs redesigned in the IIGS' image was the Mac II.

The black and white Macs that Jobs so favored sold
very poorly, but the redesigned IIGS-like ones sold well.
So when you look at a Mac LC, for example, there is
a little IIGS in it (and if you add a IIe Card to the LC, you
get a little MORE IIGS...the Mega II chip from the IIGS
to be precise).