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Subject: Re: Is this true?
From: gdr@myrias.ab.ca (Devin Reade)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 19:21:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
References: <3cat1j$16vq@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <D0op0n.EyL@IRO.UMontreal.CA>

>>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.

Speaking as someone whose job is parallel programming, I have to
agree with this.  Trying to get Apple IIes running a parallel task
that is sufficiently fine-grained for doing a GUI is not a trivial
prospect.
--
	Devin Reade		gdr@myrias.ab.ca

References:
- Is this true?
  - From: JJeffries@psu.edu (JJeffries)
- Re: Is this true?
  - From: guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)

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