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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions  (was: Support Apple IIs)
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Date: 29 Mar 91 23:12:10 GMT
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In article <8259@crash.cts.com> aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
>Why can't Apple make a ROM revision of the IIGS again?  

	Why can't they? They CAN, but it seems a large number of
people in charge at Apple have their priorities messed up, so instead of
selling a "color Mac" to users cheaply, they try to pawn off an 'old'
design Mac in a new case.

	Write to Apple (as in a PAPER letter) and tell them that you have
heard ominous signs about lack of support for the Apple II, and you
wish them to continue on the line indefinitely.  Don't make it sound like
a threat, but simply say that if they stop the Apple II line, you have no
intention of ever buying a Mac. Plain and simple.

>Computer:  Apple IIgs
>ROM: 4
>Memory: 2 meg
>Speed: 24mhz

	Now that 24 mhz built in speed is a LITTLE much.. I mean sure
it's a dream machine, but that would require a whole redesign of the whole
computer, as most of the internals require to be "spoken to" at 1mhz.
	A Zip GS-type accelerator with a cache built in on the motherboard
might be feasible, but Apple certainly wouldn't do it from what we see from
them nowadays.  Besides, that still leaves the whole bottleneck of going
down to 1mhz all the time.

>Then add a SCSI interface like MACs.

	Built in SCSI would be very nice.. We already have the DMA SCSI 
card and the RamFast SCSI card which is BETTER than Apple's in some ways..
(doesn't support removable media completely yet though which is a reason
I won't buy it, also I already have Apple's.. heh)

>I was told by several Mags, and people that the IIGS has better sound
>capibilities than the MACs.

	The GS has better sound capabilities than IBMs, Macs, Atari STs,
or Amigas..  The only computer I can think of that has better sound
capabilities is the NeXT, and that's a workstation and not a PC.

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