Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Ole Voss <joker@on-line.de>]

Well, like I posted somewhere else here - I cannot say that I'm really fascinated
by the stability of the 65816 or its power. the I/O lines are far too weak and it
is also not the most stable chip I've come across. I wonder what WDC hsa been up to
in the past 10 years - I mean they should've come up with their 32bit version by
now! I'm still waiting for it....
;-))

Ole


Supertimer wrote:

> shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> That proves NOTHING.  Why would a well respected president of a
> company like Mensh fabricate something like this?  A much more
> likely explanation -- Apple high-uppers lead by Jobs (who was still
> there during much of the GS' development....as was Wozniak half the
> time before moving to Cloud-9) wanted to stunt the GS.
>
> It meshes with the other lines of evidence -- no support for interlaced
> 400 lines, no support for 256 colors per scan line, no higher resolution
> in monochrome  -- the overall stunting of the VGC chip...


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