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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Build in the VOC
Summary: hey!
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Date: 24 Sep 90 21:58:58 GMT
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In article <15507.netnews.info-apple@pro-novapple> shrinkit@pro-novapple.cts.com (Andy Nicholas) writes:
>I'm going to take a small poll here -- one of the things that I think would be
>cool to see in a new IIGS (this is very presumptuous, to be sure) would be a
>built-in Video Overlay Card.  Think about it -- something like that would give
>the IIGS a multimedia lead over almost every other platform out there.  Plus,
>existing owners wouldn't get stuck with something obsolete because they could
>just run out and buy a VOC if they didn't want to get a whole new CPU.  Long
>ago when the VOC came out, I vaguely recall someone telling me that a lot of
>the video circuitry on the VOC was duplicated on the GS motherboard... if this
>is true, then it really might not be an enormous expense to include it.

What an awesome idea.

Not only would it do wonders for IIgs graphics, but the fact that it has
benefits for the educational market would make Apple actually consider it.

Comments from Apple employees?

>andy

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