Re: memory for apple IIgs

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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: Willi Kusche (a2@wilserv.com) writes:
: > Hi, y'all!
: >
: > "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:<cKGdnT14Z85UBKjd4p2dnA@comcast.com>...
: >> So, go ahead and run your GS like a //e if you like
: >> it that way, but please, also run MS-DOS 6.22 on
: >> your Pentium 4 and OS 7.1 on your G5s.
: >
: >     A Pentium 4 has the horsepower to run Windows.  A G5 has
the
: > horsepower to run OS X.  The 65816 does *NOT* have the
horsepower to
: > properly run a GUI.  Just my opinion, of course.
: >
: >     You're welcome.
: >
: > Willi
:
: And realistically, a GUI does not add function.  It simply
makes
: things "user friendly".
:
: I moved from a Radio Shack Color Computer (running Microware
OS-9)
: to a Mac Plus (given to me as a discard) in late 1993.  I had
to
: get a hard drive for it, because it was unuseable with a single
floppy
: (and the price of an external floppy was such that a hard drive
: was worth the extra price, even besides it making it more
useable
: than just an extra floppy drive).  It had 1meg of memory, twice
: as much as the CoCo.  But I lost multitasking, and it really
did
: not do anything more than the CoCo.  In other words, the
hardware
: got better but the software reduced that capability to where I
hadn't
: really moved forward.  (The Mac Plus was cute, and I actually
wanted
: for once to have a relatively mainstream computer, which is why
I
: switched at the time.)
:
: There is lots about the GS that makes it a better computer than
the IIs
: before it.  A faster CPU, and more ram.  That Ensoniq
synthesizer.  The
: fact that the keyboard is separate from the actual computer.
So much
: that required boards in previous IIs are built in.
:
: If the only reason for moving to a IIGS is because it runs a
GUI,
: then that isn't saying much about the computer.
:
:    Michael

I have to agree, but if you run some of the 16-bit
programs written specifically for the IIgs, you might
find that GUI is only a small change. There are lots
of IIgs programs that will not run on a //e no matter
what you do to it.

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