Re: Iigs comparable to Amiga? Pah!

[Richard Kilpatrick <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>]

On 14/10/04 10:17 pm, in article
20041014171715.25357.00001279@mb-m22.aol.com, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> It occurred to me last night that in many ways, the IIgs was superior to the
>> early Macs. 128K ROM instead of 64K. Colour. Stereo sound. Slots. Only the
>> 65C816 speed and the relatively low screen res in the Finder let it down. It
>> was and still is a technical marvel.
> 
> While I get your point, the native IIgs did not have stereo sound--they
> left out the de-mux needed to split the output into separate channels.

True, but it was easy to add, and in theory, it had it. It still had half
the RAM of the original Mac 128 dedicated to sound entirely ;)

Richard

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