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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
From: gabeg@pacbell.net (Gabe Green)
Date: 1996/11/11
Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
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> I think that's right.  The IIgs was running at 3.5MHz, while the Amiga,
> Mac, and other comparable machines were doing a good 8MHz.  You could get
> third-party accelerators that would push the IIgs to 8MHz and beyond.

Just an interesting tidbit about the 65816 processor that powers the IIGS
- this is also the same processor that powers Nintendo's SuperNES/Super
Famicom... and that machine can do some *really* impressive stuff.
(Example:  Final Fantasy 3).

References:
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com>
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: glhansen@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory Loren Hansen)

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