Re: a quick thought...

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4nq9fr$716@frazier.uoknor.edu>, justin@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
(Justin Thiesen) writes:

>
>Much of the trouble with upgrading the video hardware of the GS has
>to do with the fact that data still has to run through the 1 Mhz
>bus.  At the same time, however many GS owners have an accelator
>card of some variety.  If you could somehow combine the two, you'd
>have a killer product - maybe one of the 20 Mhz 65816's + accelerated
>video hardware.  Perhaps you could set it up so it would read the
>Quickdraw roms into a static cache at boot time, or something...
>

     In fact, if you put a really fast processor plus improved video
hardware and some other Apple II goodies on a motherboard, you'd have a
darn nice machine. We could call it the "Apple IIGSX"!




Rubywand