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Re: IIe enhancement kits?

Subject: Re: IIe enhancement kits?
From: "Mark Percival" <mark@syndicomm.com>
Date: 10 May 2006 08:26:57 -0700
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BLuRry wrote:
> WTF is up with this description?!   FASTER PROCESSING?  Really?
> Support of interrupts? Faster graphics?  Was this really in the apple
> dealer literature or is this person smoking crack?

Marcus  wrote:

> Faster graphics:
> Mousetext instead of hires graphics? (faster but uglier)

I think (and I'm really just guessing here) that graphics they are
refering to is the text display.  One of the firmware fixes pertained
to the speed in which 80-column text was displayed.  In an unenhanced
IIe the scrolling speed was awful.  They fixed this in the enhancement.

-- Mark 

Try DiskMaker 8! 

http://www.syndicomm.com/~mark/DM8/

References:
- IIe enhancement kits?
  - From: Stephane Racle <nospam@gmail.com>
- Re: IIe enhancement kits?
  - From: Doug_M <doug.mccomber@fakepart.gmail.com>
- Re: IIe enhancement kits?
  - From: "BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Re: IIe enhancement kits?
  - From: heuser.marcus@freenet.de

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