Re: Apple IIx

["Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>]

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In article <qPbd3.2613$c5.669716@news1.usit.net>, hgrabows@vt.edu (Hank)
wrote:


>As a previous/current Apple //c user, I had my
>appetite whetted by the seeing of some cancelled
>follow on project called the Apple IIx.  This was
>supposed to be the sucessor to the Apple IIgs.

Actually, the Apple IIx was a design for a 65816 based computer. It was
conceived and canceled before the Apple IIGS project started. The design
called for a multitasking (!) machine with a slot that would allow the
addition of a 68K processor card that would run Macintosh applications.
Somewhere I have a white paper describing the project; I think that was
about as far as it got.

While the Apple IIGS design team would have had access to the original IIx
information, everything about the Apple IIGS was a separate project.

Mike Westerfield