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From: jerryk@pro-tcc.cts.com (Jerry E. Kindall)
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Subject: Re: Zip GS
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Date: 10 Jun 90 06:32:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from chin@ankh.ftl.fl.us

Boycott Zip Technology... hmm.

Since when is it wrong for a company to try to make money?  Of course, if they
alienate their customers they don't stand to make money for long.

The RocketChip was a better accelerator than the ZipChip is.  Of course, since
the same guy designed both, he had a head start in doing the RocketChip. 
Usually when you sign a contract with a company to develop a product, there's
a clause in the contract that forbids you to develop a similar product for a
competitor.  Zip sued (and won) over breach of contract, which is quite
provable in this case.  If you paid a guy a bunch of money to design a chip
for you and then he went off and did the same thing for someone else, you'd be
perturbed too.

ASIC Enterprises is making a 20 Mhz 65816, which will possibly be used in IIgs
accelerators.  Of course, the market is a little bigger than IIgs
accelerators.  Most 65816s in use today have little to do with Apples.  If
ASIC hoped to sell chips only to IIgs accelerator manufacturers they would
have had a difficult time finding investment capital.

The Zip GS will be a card because it HAS to be.  A plug-in processor
replacement accelerator cannot be DMA compatible; the signal simply isn't
avaialble at the processor socket.  Since the new Apple II High Speed SCSI
Card uses DMA, it's important that any IIgs accelerator be DMA compatible.
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