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Re: MacGS?

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

:> Actually the Duet card never saw the light of day because Apple came out
:> with the Mac Classic, which cost less than the card would have cost and
:> had better performance.

: Are you sure it was the Classic which triggered this?  The price may
: have been an issue, but the machine specs (speed and RAM) for the
: Classic are almost exactly the same as the Mac Plus and SE.

: If the Duet was going to have worse performance than the Classic, then
: it would be worse than every Mac ever made.

: The LC, on the other hand, would be a better bet - twice the clock
: frequency of the Classic, with a better processor (020) to boot.

Well performance is more than clock speed. I remember the talk saying that
there would be a funky scrolling screen setup. Recall that even a Classic
has higher vertical resolution than a IIgs. That alone would make the card
undesirable to my thinking.

When this was in the Apple II press, the price estimates I saw were around
$1400. You could get a Classic for $900 at that time. And what I read said
you could expect Classic style performance from the card. Hence there would
be little to no market for such a thing.
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