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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: InCider's comments on the new //GS
Message-ID: <285@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 09:56:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 09:56:50 1986
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: expensive upgrade also, how are pixels mapped?

> 
> On  another note, pretend you have a //e and you want to buy the
> expansion card in January for $599.  Remember that you also need
> a mouse if you haven't got one ($100) and a 3.5" drive ($300).
> So you're up to $1000...you might as well buy a standalone //gs.

You forgot the RGBi monitor.  Add another $500!

I saw the "apple light" demo too.  I cringed when the picture of
the guy playing the sax disolved into the combo.  I saw that old
fill-in-inbetween-the-lines video behavior that I've learned to
HATE so well on the ][ and //e!!  Somebody pleeze tell me that they
were just doing the disolve that way for effect, rather than
becuase adjacent sceen pixels aren't adjacent memory (be honest)!

I have to admit that no text page in the 16 bit mode is peculiar.
I guess that is Apple being Apple again.

The additional sound capability seems like overkill relative to the
level of improvement made on other parts of the machine.  Most
curious.  Perhaps, there is something that they aren't telling us
right now.

One thing positive that I can say is that the 65816 is a pretty
neat CPU.  I'd like to get my hands on a //GS to dhrystone it.
From what I've read, the claims are that the 3 MHz65816 can beat an 8
MHz 68K chip.  Also WDC promised a 65832 that fits the same socket
by 1987.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA     tel:  216-325-2511
(wtm@neoucom.UUCP)