Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

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.
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