Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes:

>Doug Cotton (doug.cotton@cmdweb.com) wrote:

>: According to an interview with Bill Mensch, even the 65816 at 4 MHz (which
>: it was capable of at the time it was engineered into the GS) could
>: outperform the original Mac, and 'Apple' purposely kept the clock speed
>: down because of this.

>Man I'm sick of propaganda like this. If you've been using IIgses since the
>'80s, you know the story of how Jean-Louis Gassee was giving a speech saying
>that WDC couldn't supply Apple with enough fast 65816s to build a faster IIgs.
>Bill Mensch said otherwise, and the two nearly got into a fistfight over it.
>The end result however is that 3 MHz is the fastest part you see in a IIgs.

Well, sure, a lot of folks know about that, but that's not the point.  The
point (and the real question) is this: Which one of them was telling the
truth, and if Jean-Louis wasn't then _why_wasn't_he_?  "Propaganda" doesn't
mean it's not true.....

Jeff Berntsen
jeffb@world.std.com