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From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song)
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Subject: Re: GS vs. Mac
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Date: 10 Nov 90 18:38:59 GMT
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|Mr. Zink, let's talk history for a bit.
|
|The Mac started out at 128k progressed to 512k and then to 1Meg in the PLUS.
|The GS started out a 256k progressed to 512k and the 1.125Meg in the ROM03 and
|then development was frozen. Permanently.
|
|Suppose the Mac were frozen at the Plus. This is the logical equivalent of the
|ROM03.
|
|No colour, not even gray scale. This puts a crimp in colour processing,
|regardless of resolution.
|
|No Virtual Memory. Ever.
|
|System7, if it ever gets released, will run but more memory is needed. I would
|say a fully populated 4Meg would work and is required for Multifinder.
|
|Compare this to the GS. Colour (not square pixels though), speed (accelerators
|are much easier to add), expansion (how many slots in a Plus?), DMA SCSI (and
|it is OS supported), sound (best available), Virtual memory (theoretical at
|this point), Truetype (also theoretical).
|
|The GS beats the Plus across the board except in DTP, but even this is
|possible, if painful, with a Postscript printer.
|
|The fact is though that Mac development was not stopped at the Plus, two new
|Macs are released every year, usually bigger than the ones before. Whose fault
|is it that the GS has not been improved? Not mine. Not yours. Not the GS's
|architecture certainly.
|
|Given a GS there is no need to wrap a Mac around a IIe, it's already there,
|and this gives you most of what a Mac is for the target market, home and
|education.
|
|Eric McGillicuddy
|Apple II Evangelist

I wish I said that!!! :)  >APPLAUDS<

You know the SE got VRAMs... sped it up a bit 10-20%... GS could do well with
some VRAMs.