Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

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shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>The Lisa didn't sell worth a hoot at $10000 a copy. Ever used one? The system
>isn't as good as the early Mac system. They run at a whole 5 mHz, a little over
>half the speed of the first Mac. Even when the Lisa 2 came out and the price
>was cut in half, it was twice as much as the first Mac. Not too hard to figure
>out why it didn't sell. It didn't make sense to call the Mac XL a Mac since
>it still ran Lisa's OS and apps.

Except for processor speed, the Lisa was superior to the original Mac.
It had true grayscale and a multitasking OS.


>
>>>1.  Support Macintosh only.
>>>2.  Support IIgs only.
>>>3.  Support Macintosh and IIgs.
>>
>>4. Provide a bridge between the A2 and Macs. Make a 'Apple //e on a card'
>>in 1985, not 1991, and sell it as a nice migration path.
>
>No Mac in '85 had an expansion slot.

See why the IIGS, released a few months later, had more potential?  :)