Re: What is Apple II

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Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote:

>Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> Color Quickdraw was in place around the SE era, even though you
>> couldn't actually see it... 
>
>Not quite.  The original Quickdraw for the Macintosh 128/512/Plus/SE had
>partial support for color (eight colors total, IIRC), but Apple didn't
>support it.  There were some third-party color products that didn't
>sell well.
>
>"Color Quickdraw" was introduced with the Macintosh II, and only ran
>on machines with a 68020, 68030, or 68040 processor.  It was never
>backported to 68000-based machines such as the SE.

Then there was Quickdraw II for the IIGS which was
introduced somewhere between the Plus and the
Mac SE & Mac II.

The Apple IIGS.  A thorn in the Mac's side.  ;-)  It
came with the first Apple color GUI and was the
first with ADB ports.

I like to think of the Apple IIGS as the last triumpth
for the Apple II division.  I read that Jobs was not
happy at all that the IIGS was in development.