Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

[Mark Frischknecht <appleiiguy@gmail.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
> 
But they did cripple the IIgs. The Processor was capable of going at
least 5-7 Mhz but they decided on 2.6 Mhz??