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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs



On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jeff Lemke wrote:

> > Now heres the irony: they finally come out with an
> > Apple IIGS and it has better graphics and sound than the
> > IBM clones of the day (which were doing EGA and not yet
> > SoundBlaster).  Its speed was not spectacular, but comparable
> > to an IBM AT revision 2 (8Mhz 286).  
> 
> Then it was about par for its day in speed (for a short while, until the
> 386's arrived on its heels), but there were already PC's out there with
> far better graphics capabilities via third party graphics boards, like
> the early TARGA boards, for instance.

  For the record, Number Nine was producing 1024x1024 graphics boards for 
the Apple II back around 1980-82.