Re: New Apple II (was Apple's next move ...)

[chrisw@eagle.ais.net (Chris Wicklein)]

RUBYWAND (rubywand@aol.com) wrote:

:      Will GS-X be "boat-anchor slow" in two years? three years? ...  Not
: likely. Running a 200MHz RISC and with the capability for in-Slot
: acceleration (say, to 500MHz, 1GHz, ...)  it will be able to 'muddle
: along' well enough. On-motherboard Video with no performance-killing data
: bottleneck is not an advantage easily overcome by any plug-in Video
: system.

	Before last week, the last time I had heard the GSX discussed 
seriously was during the very early 90s prior to the Twain.  I'm not sure 
why we're considering a system like you describe as a modern GSX.  How 
does this concept differ from adopting an existing platform, such as a 
generic PPC box, and writing a 65816 emulator and intercepting all I/O 
location accesses?

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