Re: Slow GS video thanks to: Apple sucks

[Marc Walters <mwalters@attila.apana.org.au>]

Greg J. Buchner <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us> wrote:
> On 11 Sep 1997 pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

[big snip]

> > II and lashed out against it.  However, did Apple deliberately try
> > to hold back the development of the GS so that it would not compete
> > against the Mac?  I'd have to say they are guilty as charged.

> I would agree with this, there was an opportunity to make the GS
> faster when the ROM 03 came out, but I do believe it was Gassee 
> (or however it's spelled) wouldn't allow any type of faster Apple II.
> The only thing he wanted to see was faster Macs.

Hmmm. Similar thing happened with the C64- it's successor, the C65 was
to compete with the Amiga- 1280x400 pixel, 256 colour, faster processor,etc.
So Commodore killed it.
a 3rd party, Creative Micro Designs, who had been supplying
addons like hard drives, RAM upgrades (16Mb!), faster drive access,
and all those other things Commodore neglected to provide for us C64
users, produced a hardware accellerator cartridge based on the
WDC 65816 CPU- 20Mhz. Coupled with the 16Mb RAM plug-in, this makes the
C64 one mean 8-bit machine. Or should I say 16 bit.

The point is, you Apple GS, and II, seem to have had the same troubles
with the parent company as us C= users. I'm not sure if Warp still
exists, or if their products are still supported, but it seems that
these types of companies, ones that produce peripherals irrespective
of the parent company's own internal politics or economic considerations,
are the ones still keeping our older machines running.

Sorry about being a touch off-topic, but I'd been in Lurk_Mode for
too long  :)

Regards

Marc Walters