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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Duet...WHY NOT?!
Keywords: Revive the GS!
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.063443.28466@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 06:34:43 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:

>3) CirTech can be the company to revive the Apple IIgs.  By releasing a low
>cost Mac Card, people will be able to buy a "low cost" (relatively) computer
>that emulates the Apple II, IBM (with TransWarp), and Macintosh.
>PEOPLE WILL GO FOR THIS!!!

No they won't. The PCT is a low end PC clone at best. It will admittedly run
most of the business software, but EGA/VGA games are out.

The Duet was supposedly going to use the IIgs screen for output -- this kills
it before it starts. People are not going to put up with either a 320x200 mac
or a 640x200 mac. Also, getting the software to work will be a royal pain.

The Duet is really not viable for the same reasons that a IIgs-emulating Mac
isn't -- the hardware layout is so different that is simply isn't worth it.

>Keep in mind that the IIgs emulates the IIe at the speed of the clock (2.8mHz
>or faster based on your accellerator...The Mac LC will only run IIe stuff
>at 1mHz).

not true -- the LC's //e card runs at 1 or 2 mhz. It's soldered though (i.e.
you can't replace it with a Zip Chip) but the //e card is really just a
checklist item. It's only real purpose is to lever the Mac into schools and
in doing so kill the GS on its last battlefield. Whether it will or not is
still a question.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu