Re: Apple II GS Question

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>In article shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...
>>Not everyone. I never saw any need for an accelerator so never got one. Got
>>all the other stuff though, I'd consider memory and hard disk must haves.
>
>...A few years later, when I replaced that Zip with a 15 MHz/64K
>cache board, the system became pleasure to use, to the point it even
>felt _fast_ (somewhat of a rariety with the IIgs ;-). Not only do windows
>fly, menus and dialog boxes open in a flash, but even the performance of my
>hardrive is _greatly_ affected. I literally feel as if everything is going
>in slow-motion when I disable my Zip. If my accelerator died and I was
>forced to run at stock speeds, I doubt I would still be using the
>machine for anything serious or possibly at all (perhaps I've been spoiled
>by the speed though :) OTOH, I certainly agree that a hardrive and extra
>memory are absolutely musts, probably more so than an accelerator (despite
>my strong opinions on the preference to have acceleration).

I agree.  I think the difference is that if you are actually going
to USE your IIgs, as opposed to just playing with it, you'd need
an accelerator.  Randy's philosophy seems to be that if he needed
to type up something, he'd go to one of his souped up Macs.

OTOH, when given a choice between a 25MHz '486 with Windows 95 and a
13.75MHz/16K Zipped GS, I'd naturally pick the GS for word processing
since it runs its software faster than the PC does.

The exception is AppleWorks Classic users.  The text screen runs
fast even without an accelerator.  Incidentally, Macs lack text
screens.  Strange...back in the Mac Plus days, a terminal on a Mac
would slug along while Apple II, GS, and PC terminals zoomed past.

-Scott G.