Re: Apple //f...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

"Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org> wrote:

>On 27 Jun 1999, Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >If you are going to make an Apple IIgs computer clone/successor then you
will
>> >have to use a fast CPU.  Nobody is going to buy a slow 7Mhz computer.  At
>> least
>> >use the fastest chip available for 65816s.  There is a 20Mhz version
>> available.
>> 
>> The article was written in 1990.  ;-)  That design would have made sense
back
>> in 1989, actually, back when Apple tried to deny there were faster chips and
>> William Mensh jumped on to the podium at AppleFest to say otherwise and
>> got dragged off by Apple people.
>
>There may have been sample quantities of faster 65816's, but there wasn't 
>the large quantity available that Apple would have needed to go into
>production (not that they would have used them if there had been the
>numbers of chips available).  After all, look at a smaller company
>like Applied Engineering...they had problems getting 7MHz units for
>their first TransWarps.

Intel wasn't the company it is until IBM "discovered" it.  Why would WDC
gear up to produce large volumes of fast 65C816 chips if Apple couldn't
make a commitment to the IIGS and moved toward placing an order?
The chips he had proves that Mesch could deliver fast chips.

It is like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak building computers in a garage.
How many could they build?  It was not until an investor came and
wanted the computers to be built in numbers were they actually built
in numbers.