Re: Apple IIx

[Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com>]

Supertimer wrote:

> But AWGS runs as fast on my IIGS from the interface point of view
> as a word processor on my Win 95 unit, thus I still use the IIGS
> along with my PC.

There must be a big performance gain going from 7 to 12 MHz on the
accelerator.  My K6-233, despite a $17 video card, is about as fast
in graphics mode as the IIgs is in text mode.  (And of course
WordPerfect 8 vs AWGS is just not fair...)

> AWGS 1.0 was released as a P16 program in late 1987.  It
> was later made into a GS/OS program in AWGS 1.1 in 1989.

Open-Apple says it was still a pre-release GSWorks at the May 1988
Applefest, which was when Claris reps got a look at it and bought it
almost on the spot.  (After which the developers wandered off
without being stopped and wrote ClarisWorks, which Claris -- says
Guy Kawasaki -- didn't originally want. Who was running that
company?)  My v1.0 disks, which I stupidly made a backup of
1.1 on, have a 1988 copyright.

> So does WPGS, which was first released in early 1987 (just
> a few months after the release of the IIGS) and runs respectably
> fast even on a stock IIGS.

Urrrr...this is a matter of opinion.  I was very excited to get
WPGS 2.1 but ended up selling it in favor of WP IIe.  That wasn't
much better so I went back to AppleWorks.  GUIs come and go, but
AppleWorks is forever.

> >(At least System 3.2 had the Finder -- I just ran the DHR
> >Apple II Desktop.  Yikes.  Looks like a monochrome Workbench.)
> 
> That's because Apple II Desktop is really a IIe program.

Bad design is platform-independent, I find.


-- 
My other computer is an Apple II.