Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com> wrote:

>"desiv" <desiv@attbi.com> wrote in news:csPaa.24745$L1.4570@sccrnsc02:
>
>> A Model T with parts from the present would, in my view, be relating
>> to the present; and therefor a Modern Model T.
>
>But then there is the question, after replacing X percentage of an item is 
>it no longer the same item?

Just like a modern Mac retains basically nothing of the first
Mac.  CPU is completely different architecture.  Modern
Mac can't run first Mac software.  But modern Mac is a Mac.
I'm not a Mac fan but I don't fault Apple for calling the
PowerPC units Macs just like the old 68k architecture ones.

>Apple 6502 based

Same idea.  Like the Mac is no longer 68k based so a
modern IIGS could very likely be using an Athlon XP.  At
some point there would have to have been an architecture
shift.

>Apple II, II+, //e 6502 based, DOS, ProDOS support slot architecture the 
>same

I remember the old NuBus slots Macs had.  Now Macs
have AGP and PCI slots.

>Apple //c, //c+ 6502 based, DOS, ProDOS support

Can't run early MacOS on new Macs.  Newest Macs
will no longer be able to run MacOS 9 even.

>Apple IIgs all levels 65816(6502 based) based, slot arch. same as older 
>models, DOS, ProDOS support

Apple IIGS was the last of the old architecture like the
Quadras were the powerhouse of the old 68k Mac
architecture.  At some point, that architecture had to
be left behind.

>Supertimer's Modern Apple IIgs
>Only hardware from Apple is the case, no 65816, different slot arch., 
>direct software support very questionable.
>Therefore in my opinion NOT any sort of Apple IIgs

Not any sort of original IIGS, agreed.  But a modern IIGS,
had the evolution of the computer continued, I believed
would have ended up very similar to the nForce2
platform.

No doubt the demo scene would have gone from FTA
and NinjaForce to 3DMark.