Re: Slow GS video thanks to: Apple sucks

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 11 Sep 1997 pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

> gjb_remove@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner) wrote:
> >And just were would they have gotten 10MHz 65c816's?  It seems to me
> >that Applied Engineering had problems getting 7MHz versions when they
> >were first coming out with the TransWarp GS.
> 
> Nate is right, 10MHz 65C816's were available.  They were available
> from the start.

But not in production quantities...you have to remember, standard
business practices at the time dicatated that Apple order the 
processor from "STOCK".  Say Apple used a 10MHz 65816 to start with.
Their initial production order probably would have been in excess of
100,000 chips, probably more like a quarter of a million.  Could WDC
have made that many reliable 10MHz chips?  Maybe, maybe not, but the
point it that they hadn't and standard business practice was to rely
on what you could order, not what you might be able to order.

I ahve taken business accounting classes and understand how all of
this works (although it has been quite a few years, and it was
something I never finished.)

> Greg, I am not an Apple hater.  I believe that many people do not
> understand the Mac just as many people did not understand the Apple
> II and lashed out against it.  However, did Apple deliberately try
> to hold back the development of the GS so that it would not compete
> against the Mac?  I'd have to say they are guilty as charged.

I would agree with this, there was an opportunity to make the GS
faster when the ROM 03 came out, but I do believe it was Gassee 
(or however it's spelled) wouldn't allow any type of faster Apple II.
The only thing he wanted to see was faster Macs.

Greg B.

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