Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 91 02:50:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 X-Unparsable-Date: Sat Apr 6 91 at 04:51:05 (EST) Apple is pretty cruddy when it comes to hardware. They disabled the burst mode on the 68030 and the burst mode on the NuBus. SCSI hardware is different for almost each of the Mac models. No nybble/page-mode or interleaved memory. You can get pretty good memory access speed with these stuff. You can find this stuff on 20+Mhz IBM clones, Amiga 3000, and the NeXT... not on a Mac/Apple computer. Took them what 4years just to start using VRAM to speed up the Mac SE. VRAMs would be great on a GS. Nope, Apple isn't innovative, it's all bottom line... how much they can charge, while how little they give you... It won't take much to out perform a Mac... a 4Mhz GS with VRAMs could give the low-end Macs a run for their money... provided Apple doesn't raise the prise on the machine. /es whitewolf@gnh-starport!info-apple