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Re: TransWarp ][: any info?



Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> There was a lawsuit over who owned the rights to the caching technology that
> went into the Zipchip and the Rocketchip. While the lawsuit was going on AE
> leased that technology from the maker of the Rocketchip.  Zip won the lawsuit
> and ordered AE to cease and desist so they went back to making the original
> TransWarp. A pity, while the TransWarp II was basically a Zipchip on a card,
> the TransWarp III was supposed to offer a number of improvements such as
> supporting DMA and user upgradable speed

<rant>arghh.  WHy can't people just play nice?  All we want is a cool
Apple II!</rant>


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