Re: IIe enhancement kits?

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1147267566.259995.225150@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
 "BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:

> WTF is up with this description?!   FASTER PROCESSING?  Really?
> Support of interrupts? Faster graphics?  Was this really in the apple
> dealer literature or is this person smoking crack?
> 
> ---snip---
>  The Apple IIe Enhancement Kit gives the Apple IIe many advanced
> features, including faster processing, MouseText character display, and
> support of interrupts for applications such as networking.  The Apple
> IIe enhancement kit gives the Apple IIe a greater range of software
> compatibility, and allows it to run software designed to take advantage
> of state-of-the-art Apple II ProDOS 8 software. Current software may
> include pull-down menus, pictorial characters, faster graphics that
> have a smoother look, and the ability to use the computer to work on
> one document while the printer is printing another.
> 

He's smoking crack. 

Faster processing *MAYBE*, if using a program that was written to the 
65C02 instruction set (and the program can actually make use of the new 
instructions in a way that means anything). 

Interrupts? Not without a card to generate 'em, and the slots properly 
filled to capacity so that the interrupt line is unbroken from one end 
to the other.

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