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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Date: 1996/10/26
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
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christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
>In article <54p0bq$678@opal.southwind.net>, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes:
>|> pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
>|> : When the GS came out, the Mac sucked. It is better now, but what
>|> : Mac are we talking about in '86? The Mac Plus? The GS was and
>|> : is better than the Mac Plus.
>
>Except in speed, vertical resolution, and growth potential. What were
>the RAM limit on the GS?
The RAM limit on the GS was 16MB of directly addressable memory (24-bit
address). 8MB for system RAM, 1MB for firmware ROM, and 7MB for expansion
ROM...useful, for example, for a non-volitile RAM disk for instantaneous
boot up to the Finder with all DAs, core fonts, and extensions.
Speedwise, it is slightly slower due to Apple's (counter)efforts. It
runs about as fast as a 6MHz PC/AT.
It had more growth potential than the Mac Plus. It could even accept
more RAM and expansion out of the box.
>The IIGS was introduced in October 1986; the
>Color Mac II was introduced in April, 1987. Six months later. So
>there was a tiny window when the IIGS has some claim to superiority,
>but the handwriting was on the wall.
Based on first year sales eclipsing the Mac, Apple should have continued
improving the GS, coming out with a new model in '88 to out-do the Mac II.
>
>|> Depends on what you call better I suppose. You can run TCP client
>|> apps, current system software, and new apps still on a Plus you
>|> know.
>
>I just set up my neighbor's kid with 7.0.1 on their 4M Mac Plus. No
>networking, though.
A new TCP for the GS is in beta testing.
>|> : The GS was a great example. Compatible with the II but better
>|> : than the Mac of its day.
>
>|> If you say so
>
>It could arguably hold its own against the Mac of the day. Six
>months after its introduction, though, the future was clear.
What we're saying is that six months after that, based on solid sales,
Apple should have rewarded the II by coming out with a NEW GS that
would shift the tide in its favor again.
It made money. It was clearly expandable. Why did Apple not keep the
ball rolling?