Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

doug.cotton@cmdweb.com (Doug Cotton) wrote:
>Date: Thu, Apr 2, 1998 13:44 EST
>Message-id: <6g0m8f$5jt@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
>
>In article <1998032909430501.EAA08946@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
>regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:
>
>> Jobs also killed an Apple II running the ARM (32 bit, 6 MHz at the time)
>that
>> outperformed the Mac.
>
>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.


Yes, however, the foks from ACORN (6502 based BBC Computer 2MHz) visited
Western Design to look at the 816 and were pretty disapointed. On the way home
on the plane decided they could design something better than that slug in their
sleep. Thus the ARM, Acorn Risk Machine, later Advanced Risk Machine) was born.
Less than 20,000 transistors and went like a bat out-a-hell.

Charlie Springer