Re: Apple //f...

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On 27 Jun 1999, Supertimer wrote:

> Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
> 
> >If you are going to make an Apple IIgs computer clone/successor then you will
> >have to use a fast CPU.  Nobody is going to buy a slow 7Mhz computer.  At
> least
> >use the fastest chip available for 65816s.  There is a 20Mhz version
> available.
> 
> The article was written in 1990.  ;-)  That design would have made sense back
> in 1989, actually, back when Apple tried to deny there were faster chips and
> William Mensh jumped on to the podium at AppleFest to say otherwise and
> got dragged off by Apple people.

There may have been sample quantities of faster 65816's, but there wasn't 
the large quantity available that Apple would have needed to go into
production (not that they would have used them if there had been the
numbers of chips available).  After all, look at a smaller company
like Applied Engineering...they had problems getting 7MHz units for
their first TransWarps.  

And I never heard of Mensch getting dragged off the stage...what I
heard was that he was just ignored by the Apple people...like he didn't
even exist.

Greg B.

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