Re: Is this true?

[guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)]

In article <3cat1j$16vq@hearst.cac.psu.edu> JJeffries@psu.edu (JJeffries) writes:
>I captured this from ISCABBS... Is it true?
>
>Interesting Historical Note: Apple, when they first demo'd the original Mac
>interface on a Lisa for the press, wasn't using a 68000 processor. They had
>about 12 Apple IIe's stacked below the damn Lisa, providing the guts for the
>thing...needless to say, the IIe's were covered up by a sheet over the table
>that the pretty Lisa sat on.

I never heard this story before, and I strongly doubt it's true.
It seems a lot harder implementing the Lisa interface on 12 6502s
in parallel than on a single 68000.

On the other hand, Microsoft _did_ demo an early version of Windows 95
on what they claimed was a 486DX2/66 MHz processor, and everyone was
impressed by its speed, until somebody opened the machine and found
a 90 MHz Pentium inside.

Paul Guertin
guertinp@iro.umontreal.ca