Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 10 mhz chips
Message-ID: <36403@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 89 17:41:01 GMT
References: <2473.cortland.info-apple@pro-houston>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2473.cortland.info-apple@pro-houston> jabernathy@pro-houston.cts.com (Joe Abernathy) writes:
>
>I agree that six mhz would be an ideal speed for the IIGS, but it needs two
>things more: faster I/O, and faster video, both of which are stuck at the old
>1 MHz of the ][+. Personally, I sold my last ][+ several years ago and I'm
>kind of tired of being hobbled today by its limitations. 
>
Faster video is one thing, but faster I/O could very well mean that none of the
existing peripheral cards for the Apple II would work in such a new IIgs.  Do 
you think all people who would want a new IIgs would be ready to give up their
5.25" disk cards, their Video Overlay cards, their FPE cards, maybe their
TransWarp cards, their parallel printer cards, their slot-based RAM cards,
their IEEE-488 cards, and who knows what else?  I have my doubts.

>I don't really know that much about hardware design myself .. I'm just a
>mouthpiece for people who do know. But they all say that a IIGS operating
>around 6 MHz -- with 6 MHz video and faster I/O -- would be an ideal machine.
>In fact, the rumor mill has it that AIIDTS is holding discussions on this very
>undertaking.
>
Ahem...Joe, AIIDTS discusses more things on a daily basis than could possibly
be summarized to the net.  We're just like that - "tangent" is our middle name.
However, if we were "holding" discussions (as in, inviting people from the
outside in), I'm sure we would have announced it by now.

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