Re: GUI for //e?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

jbcole@ix.netcom.com (JB) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>jbcole@ix.netcom.com (JB) wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmm, that's interesting.  I ran GEOS on my IIc for a long time.  I wonder
>>>why one would need a card for a IIe.  There was no such plug in for my
>>>IIc.
>>
>>The card is an interrupt generator.  The IIc has the equivalent of an
>>Apple Mouse controller built in, so it can duplicate this function.
>>IIe units with a mouse card did not need the card.
>
>Yeah, I'm not talking about the mousecard.  I'm talking about what he was
>talking about.  Some sort of software protection.

It is not software protection.

Allow me to clarify...GEOS needs hardware to generate interrupts.
The Apple Mouse Card generates interrupts.  This capability is built
into the IIc which has the Mouse Card built in.  On IIe units that
lack a mouse, something else has to generate the interrupts.  This
is what the GEOS card does.  If you have a mouse card, you are
supposed to remove the interrupt generator card.