Re: Apple Assenbly Cookbook now available as free ebook

["Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com>]

"Don Lancaster" <don@tinaja.com> wrote in message 
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> Part of the reason for the IIgs failure was that the machine language 
> development was so awkward and complex.

OK, but I think a larger reason was that the Mac was already out and within 
Apple there was a struggle for resources between the IIgs guys and the Mac 
guys... and management was much more on the side of the Mac guys.

Commodore had a somewhat similar situation with the Commodore 128D, having 
come out after the Amiga was already available.  I kind of think of the IIgs 
and the 128D as two of the pinnacles of 8-bit computing (yeah, I know, neither 
was strictly a 8-bit machine -- the 65816 of the IIgs having a 16-bit mode and 
the 128D having a separate Z80 CPU --, but close enough), even if they were 
largely unknown by the masses who had moved on to the more advanced technology 
of Macs and Amigas.

Even today, when you look at the hardware resources available, something like 
an Apple IIgs running GS/OS and a Commodore 128D running GEOS is pretty 
impressive.

---Joel