Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

["barana" <barana24@telstra.com>]

Michael Black wrote:
> Ed Eastman (noone@nowhere.net) writes:
> > Michael Black wrote:
> >> given the Mac Plus, more or less current with
> >> the IIGS, could only handle 4megs of RAM.
> >
> > And there's my point.  The engineers litterally crippled teh IIgs so it
> > could not compete against the Mac.
> >
> But the other Michael's point was that back then, few were imagining
> more memory.  They didn't "cripple' the Mac Plus for the sake of another
> Macintosh, they just decided that 4megs was fine.  And if they couldn't
> see the point of more than 4megs in the Mac Plus, then why should they
> see a point in having more than 4megs in the IIGS?  I've seen lots of 286
> computers, again basically current with the IIGS, and they didn't load
> up with more than a small amount of memory.  The Atari ST came with 1meg of
> RAM, and you had to really work to expand it to more.
>
> If these other computers didn't see the need for 8megs of RAM, then
> why should it be different for the IIGS?
> 
>   Michael
could we make a fast ininhibited gs?