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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
Date: 1996/10/26
Newsgroups: comp.sys.be, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
References: <5344fe$36v@masters0.news.internex.net> <54o8mq$1pm8@uni.library.ucla.edu> <326FB037.4287@eccosys.com> <54ootb$61t@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> <54pkhl$j25@darla.visi.com> <54rcjg$ijt@mailgate.lexis-nexis.com>

christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
>Apple did introduce a IIe card for the Macintosh LC, and later models
>that kept the LC-style expansion connector.  You even had back-panel
>jacks for 5.25 drives.  The card had a 6502 processor, some hardware,
>and the Mac LC 680x0 processor interpreted the graphics output.

It did not support the //e as well as the GS's //e emulation did.

It left GS users in the dirt.

References:
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com>
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: glhansen@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory Loren Hansen)
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
- Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
  - From: christw@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C. Wood)

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