Re: What is Apple II

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
> 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.

At one time, the abortion that was released as Quickdraw GX on
the Macintosh had the tentative name "Quickdraw II".  I pointed
out to the engineers that the name was already taken.

> I like to think of the Apple IIGS as the last triumpth
> for the Apple II division.

It's a shame that the last model they designed, code named Tenspeed,
was not released to production.

There were also several earlier cancelled Apple II CPU designs, including
one that had both a 6502 and a 68000, and one that was ARM-based.  I'm
not sure whether the ARM-based one had both an ARM and a 6502, or ran
a 6502 simulator on the ARM.