Re: ZipGS or Second Sight????

[toddpw@liquefy.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

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.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu