Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Gregory Loren Hansen (glhansen@copper.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: In article <326FB037.4287@eccosys.com>, David Moles  <deivu@eccosys.com> wrote:
: >I heard once that the IIGS was deliberately speed-crippled
: >to avoid competing with the Mac. Does anyone know if there's
: >any truth to that rumor?

: I think that's right.  The IIgs was running at 3.5MHz, while the Amiga,
: Mac, and other comparable machines were doing a good 8MHz.  You could get
: third-party accelerators that would push the IIgs to 8MHz and beyond.

There weren't any fast (>4 mHz) 65816s when the IIgs came out. If you have
been using a II any length of time, you've heard about the fight between 
Jean-Louis Gassee and William Mensch over whether WDC could have supplied
faster chips. In any event, there were no accelerators until late '88.
Now as to why ROM 3s weren't any faster, I guess Apple didn't want it to be
different enough to have to put out an upgrade kit for ROM 01 owners.

: The IIgs had a mousey desktop, color, and legacy software.  I suppose
: Apple had to do something if they wanted Mac to catch on.

Just go on believing that. It's 24 karat BS if you ask me.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net