Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Paul Grammens wrote:
> 
> "Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote
> >
> > Well, the Mac - which is not a real Mac anymore, it's a Unix box - does
> > not have cutting edge hardware at all.
> >
> 
> I'm not an expert on it, but I've read that the G4 processor is quite
> advanced. Apple has done well by adding FireWire and their wireless
> networking is said to be good. I know the schools have a zillion PC's, but
> for the high-end applications like digital video it's Macs.
> Your point that a Mac is not really a Mac anymore is good- it's not a 680XX
> processor, and as you say it's a Unix-based OS.  That's evolution.
> 
> Wonder if they could have done that with the Apple II. A 32 bit processor,
> SVGA resolution, and updates to the GS/OS...
> 
> I also wonder why they didn't make a hard disk standard.
> -Paul

Hard disks were pretty expensive back then. 

I've wondered if Apple considered introducing the IIgs a mistake they
wish they
hadn't made.  Once released they were committed to a minimum level of
support. 
At least on the hardware side they didn't seem to do a lot with it. 
I don't feel the ROM 3 was really an upgrade. Things had reached the
point 
where Apple was forced to include a memory with the ROM. So it was
cheaper to 
just build it int the computer. Of course once an engineer has a chance 
to redo something, he is bound to fix and improve a few things.
I've wondered if the ROM 4 was an official project or a personal project
of 
the engineers that went on till someone higher up noticed? 

	Wayne