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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood)
- Date: 1996/10/28
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH
- References: <5344fe$36v@masters0.news.internex.net> <elisha-0910962208490001@news.dot.net.au> <325C52F2.62CD@sybase.com> <53mcb6$87f@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <53tdik$l77@europa.frii.com> <54o8mq$1pm8@uni.library.ucla.edu> <326FB037.4287@eccosys.com> <54oc1n$1p3e@uni.library.ucla.edu> <54rbc2$ijt@mailgate.lexis-nexis.com> <54u4c8$285u@uni.library.ucla.edu>
In article <54u4c8$285u@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes:
|> christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
|> >In article <54oc1n$1p3e@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes:
|> >|> The real GS monitor is the AppleColor RGB analog monitor, which
|> >|> is much crisper. Superior to the tiny Mac Plus built-in screen.
|> >Except the best video mode on the GS was 640x200, and it had its
|> >quirks. Way better than the Apple //e. The Mac always had better
|> >vertical resolution (384 vs 200).
|> But the GS has better horizontal resolution. The GS also has true
|> a true 16 grayscale. The Mac Plus only had black and white. That
|> means it has to dither grays, which cancels out any vertical
|> resolution advantage.
Not when doing black and white text...
|> >Shortly after the GS came out, the color Mac II with 640x480, 256
|> >colors from a pallette of millions came out.
|> Considering that the GS outsold the Mac in the first year,
Do you have a source for those figures? I'm curious; I've never seen
them publised. Which Mac? In the year after the IIGS came out, Apple
sold the Mac 512, Mac Plus, Mac SE, Mac II, and Mac IIx. Macintosh
sales took off after the introduction of PageMaker in 1985.
|> Apple should have made a new, more advance GS after two years.
|> They could easily have built a GS that eclipsed the Mac II.
But it wouldn't have come close to the Mac IIci that was on sale in
1988.
[ snip ]
|> >|> Thanks to its slots, today you can add a Second Sight card and
|> >|> run a VGA/SVGA monitor on it too.
|> >Except there isn't much software supporting that video mode. Unless
|> >it's just line-doubling the 640x200 to 640x400, with double-height
|> >pixels.
|> Well now, if Apple didn't cancel the GS and still supported it, more
|> software would be around.
Not with sales numbers in the hundreds of thousands per year...
Chris
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Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com cats@CFAnet.com