Re: ZipGS or Second Sight????

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3q3toe$ik5@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
toddpw@liquefy.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) wrote:

> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) writes:
> 
> >Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
> >> The real bottleneck on the IIGS is that dratted 1MHZ data bus.  I'll
> >> accept it on the ROM 1, but with the advent of the ROM 3 they could have
> >> implemented the NuBUS at least.
> 
> >Oh hell, they probably did that on those ROM 04's.
> 
> nope. NuBUS would have jacked up the price of the IIgs way too much, and there
> are other reasons why it wouldn't work too well -- no driver support from
> the Mac peripheral companies, and NuBUS' basic costs are much higher than that
> of the older Apple II bus cards.
> 
that wasn't the point of my comment.  I'd have accepted ANY faster bus.  I
mentioned NuBUS because it was available at the time.

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