Re: holy grail of apple computing?

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>     What significance was the name "Turbo-28"? I've heard of it being used
in
> the firmware on prototype ROM 3 boards, replacing the name "Apple IIgs" on
> the startup screen.
>
>     I always thought it referred to a IIgs with intergrated
ZipGS/ZipChipGS
> broken out on the main board using a 28 MHz for a 7 MHz clock speed.
> It'd make sense since they did this with the Apple IIc Plus.

You're right - Tenspeed and Turbo-28 were both ROM 03 prototypes. Apple
planned to add the faster processor, but never did. As others have pointed
out, a faster GS would have eaten into Macintosh sales for the education
market that Apple was trying so hard to convert.