Re: What's the IIe's--Arghh!--MHz Speed?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mairsil@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>I've seen posts of people who've been able to speed up their
>Apple //'s to 12 MHz, but they're mostly //GS's. Personally, though, I feel
>the "need for speed" unnecessary in an 8 bit computer. Most of the time the
>extra speed is for fancy graphics, anyway.

If you run GEOS for the IIe, the extra speed is sorely needed.
GEOS is a graphical operating system for the 8-bit Apple IIe/IIc.

For the IIGS (a 16-bit unit), I kind of consider my 12.5Mhz speedup
to be needed all the time.  ;-)  After all, it runs in graphics mode all
the time.