Re: Just Thinking Again...

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3304f30d.350780845@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>   The far more important thing is that even with an accelerator,
>>accesses to video memory still hit the *$&##@ 1Mhz speed limit of the
>>motherboard of the GS.

>Is it possible to accelerate the motherboard?  (Change the bus speed?)

   Yeah-- redesign the sucker from scratch, and you might as
well redo the slot interfaces at the same time also.

   This comes up every few months, and some folks go off the deep end
on YADAANA2[1]. Well, talk is cheap as to what you'd *like* to see,
and it's nothing more than hot air. Without cold hard cash (and a good
chunk of it, too), nothing's going to change in the Apple II
world. And with all the *#$%#@ pirating that's going on, even that's
starting to get to the point where the only people doing any form of
support are doing it because they really want to; there's no way
they'll get more than a few pennies out of it.

Nathan Mates

[1] Yet another daydream about a new Apple 2
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