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Re: MacGS?

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> : Cirtech's 68020 co-processor card, a slot card that allowed the IIGS
> : to run Macintosh software.  Only prototypes were made, I think.
> : The project was canned when the company realized that Apple
> : was not going to support the IIGS.
> 
> Actually the Duet card never saw the light of day because Apple came out
> with the Mac Classic, which cost less than the card would have cost and
> had better performance.

Are you sure it was the Classic which triggered this?  The price may
have been an issue, but the machine specs (speed and RAM) for the
Classic are almost exactly the same as the Mac Plus and SE.

If the Duet was going to have worse performance than the Classic, then
it would be worse than every Mac ever made.

The LC, on the other hand, would be a better bet - twice the clock
frequency of the Classic, with a better processor (020) to boot.

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