Re: eMate vs. IIGS/ Portable IIGS

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Gabe <Togega@concentric.net> wrote:

>So, is it possible to design an eMate like IIGS?
>	What if instead, we write a whole new OS for the eMate that would be
designed
>to emulate the IIGS. Now, this would not be simply a program on the eMate, but
>the OS. Is this plausible?

Bill Mensh has designed and Western Design Center is manufacturing the
Mensh computer.  It uses a 65C816 CPU core in a PDA sized unit.  This
might be a start to your idea.  All they need to do (which is a lot,
admittedly)
is to "put the GS back in"...the PDA as it currently is does not have good
graphics and sound...

I believe the PDA runs much faster than a standard Apple IIGS (Mensh,
free from Apple's influence, did not need to cripple his computer to avoid
competing with the likes of Macintosh).