Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

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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?

This stems from the WDC vs. Apple debate.  WDC claimed that they
had 6MHz chips available, but Apple claimed that there was so
much delay that they went with the slower chips.


>
>My only real problem with the IIGS as compared to, say, a
>Mac Plus (that being the machine of record on this thread)
>was the composite video. After word processing on a crisp,
>clear monochrome screen -- or a good, modern RGB monitor
>-- it's very hard to go back.
>
>Although it was nice to be able to format a ProDos disk on
>my Powerbook, copy the files over to a IIgs, and print them
>out on an Imagewriter, since I'd neglected to leave the
>Imagewriter driver on my Powerbook...
>
>--D

The composite video on the GS sucks, but that's only because
it is there to be compatible to VCRs (for multimedia) and
//e monitors.

The real GS monitor is the AppleColor RGB analog monitor, which
is much crisper.  Superior to the tiny Mac Plus built-in screen.
Thanks to its slots, today you can add a Second Sight card and
run a VGA/SVGA monitor on it too.

If Apple did not drop the IIgs, you can bet that VGA cards for
it would have arrived much sooner!