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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 10 mhz chips
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Date: 13 Nov 89 09:01:47 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from mattd@apple.com

You write:
> Do you think all people who would want a new IIgs would be ready to give
> up there 5.25" disk cards, their Video Overlay cards, their FPE cards,
> maybe their TransWarp cards, . . . .  I have my doubts.

The whole basis behind the IIGS was to give enhanced computing power to the
Apple II series in a handful of major hardware updates from the old IIe
design.  To continue this, I propose that Apple design their next II-series
machine with the old 8-bit slots, the expansion RAM/ROM slot, and a couple of
NuBus slots to give the system a real I/O bus wider than the choking 8-bits
we've lived with since 1978.  That way we don't have to give up anything.

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