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Re: MacGS?

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>        I recently read in Jim Carlton's book on Apple about a card called
:>MacGS which supposedly made an older Apple II behave like a Macintosh.
:>Does anybody have more information on this?

: 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.
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