Re: assembling the IIGS system source code (part 2)

[Stavros Karatsoridis <skaratso@gmail.com>]

On Mar 6, 2:20 pm, Stavros Karatsoridis <skara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 8:54 am, retrogear <larrygr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I had never heard of the Apple IIsi Steve referenced. It has a 512k ROM. It physically looks the same and has the superdrive but is a 68k processor. The code for the floppy drive could have been ported over ? The Twain tools FC/FD/FE banks do have additional tool calls not in ROM 03. I consider my FF bank fairly sound so I'm diving back into those banks... more to come.
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> That's because the IIsi is NOT and NEVER WAS an Apple II.

Correcting myself. There was apparently a successor to the IIgs in the
early planning stages called the Apple IIsi but it never made it past
the wooden mockup phase.

> The IIsi is a Macintosh. That is why it uses a 68K processor. It has
> absolutely NOTHING to do with the Apple II in any way, shape or form.
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> Now, you might be thinking of a "prototype" Apple II machine which
> never made it past the wooden case mockup that Frog design did that
> they called a "IIsi." Some people apparently think that Apple was
> planning a successor to the IIgs. Perhaps they were, but the Mark
> Twain was not the "IIsi."

If the Mark Twain had progressed further, they might have called it
something other than a IIgs. But by that time the "IIsi" name had been
attached to a Macintosh, so Apple probably would have used something
different.