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Re: Yay! Finally got myself a IIgs!



heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:

Me, too--and it runs its relatively "closed system" software quite
well.  But because it is so wierd to develop for,

"Wierd" is perhaps the wrong word.  It was the absence of good
documentation of the hardware and software systems that made it
"strange"--and you had to be an official developer to get that
info.

Compare this to the II, for which ROM listings and schematics
were standard equipment.  And the II had a programming language
built in!

-michael

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