Re: IIe GUI

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <31E5443F.397C@aol.com>, Tom Owad  <TOwad@aol.com> wrote:
>I got a lot of replies to my last post "IIe accessories"  where I 
>asked about, among other things, whether or not there was a GUI for 
>the IIe, IIGS OS in particular.  I was surprised to be told that no 
>versions of the IIGS OS run on the IIe.  In a previous thread Jonathan 
>Isom wrote:
>
>> Apple wrote an 8-bit finder which came with the very earlest 
>> IIGS system  disks that would also run on an enhanced(?) IIe. 
>> uses dhr screen.
>
>Many other people also mentioned a version of the IIGS OS running on 
>the IIe.  Is this information accurate?
>
>Thanks again,
>Tom

There is absolutely NO WAY that any IIgs specific things will run on a
//e.  The IIgs has a 16 bit processor (65816), and the //e has a 65(c)02.

Some IIgs computers look like //e's.  They aren't //e's, they're IIgs's.
They'll run the IIgs software.

The IIgs can run most //e software, because of built-in backward compatibility.
At start time, the IIgs is in 8 bit mode... acting very much like a
super-enhanced //e.  BUT... it's not a //e, and the //e can't run IIgs
software.



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