Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Doug Cotton (doug.cotton@cmdweb.com) wrote:
>:According to an interview with Bill Mensch, even the 65816 at 4 MHz (which
>:it was capable of at the time it was engineered into the GS) could
>:outperform the original Mac, and 'Apple' purposely kept the clock speed
>:down because of this.
>
>Man I'm sick of propaganda like this. If you've been using IIgses since the
>'80s, you know the story of how Jean-Louis Gassee was giving a speech saying
>that WDC couldn't supply Apple with enough fast 65816s to build a faster IIgs.
>Bill Mensch said otherwise, and the two nearly got into a fistfight over it.
>The end result however is that 3 MHz is the fastest part you see in a IIgs.

That proves NOTHING.  Why would a well respected president of a
company like Mensh fabricate something like this?  A much more
likely explanation -- Apple high-uppers lead by Jobs (who was still
there during much of the GS' development....as was Wozniak half the
time before moving to Cloud-9) wanted to stunt the GS.

It meshes with the other lines of evidence -- no support for interlaced
400 lines, no support for 256 colors per scan line, no higher resolution
in monochrome  -- the overall stunting of the VGC chip...