Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood)]

In article <54pkhl$j25@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:
|> In article <54ootb$61t@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu>,
|> Gregory Loren Hansen <glhansen@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
|> >I think that's right.  The IIgs was running at 3.5MHz, 

|>    Nah, that's the SNES with a 65816 at 3.5Mhz. The 65816 on the
|> motherboard of a GS runs at 2.8Mhz, but due to RAM refresh cycles and
|> the like, etc, you only see an effective speed of 2.5Mhz.

[ snip ]

|>    Apple's position on the Apple II has been "thank you for buying
|> that machine; let's go do something else." since the time of the Apple
|> III in 1980. Despite constant alienation, Apple IIs were widely
|> popular beyond anyone at Apple's comprehension, and they've endured.
|> Some form of bridge (such as a //e card for the Mac SE or whatever)
|> would have done wonders for narrowing the gap, but that never
|> happened.

Apple did introduce a IIe card for the Macintosh LC, and later models
that kept the LC-style expansion connector.  You even had back-panel
jacks for 5.25 drives.  The card had a 6502 processor, some hardware,
and the Mac LC 680x0 processor interpreted the graphics output.

Chris
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