Re: RamDoubler on LC

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <12JUN199618230543@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> In article chrisw@eagle.ais.net (Chris Wicklein) writes...
> >       I've always taken the point of view that Apple used the IIGS to
> >experiment with many of those hardware improvements as well as color
> >QuickDraw before implementing them on the Macintosh.
> 
>         Yes, that would seem to have been the case. The Apple Desktop
> Bus, for example, was first implemented on the Apple IIgs. Only later
> was it ported over to the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II some 6 months
> afterwards (where it's been standard on all Macs ever since).

Not exactly.  ADB was first developed for the Mac.  The IIgs team
included it in their design, and the IIgs ended up being released
before the first ADB Mac (the SE).

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