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From: ee161abt@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins)
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Subject: Re: The Woz and the Apple IIGS, //x
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 11:57:17 EDT
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In article <7993B5U@PSUVMB> B5U@PSUVMB.BITNET writes:
>  From what I've read in various articles upon the release of the IIGS
>(including an interview with Woz) the Woz was involved in the design
>of both the //x and the IIGS, although not the entire program.
>  The Woz was involved with the //x until it was discontinued, and he left.
>When he came back, the IIGS idea was starting up, and he became involved. Steve
>can be credited with some (if not most) of the IIGS beginning layout, as well
>as the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine; a disk drive controller, installed in the
>//c and IIGS).
>  Although the Woz left after the basics were decided on the IIGS to start
>Cloud9, there is a lot of his thought in the layout (including helping to keep
>compatability with the Mega II, and going for the limit on anything that would
>allow people to stretch the possibilities (such as using the Ensoniq chip
>instead of a less-powerful one.)
>
>  As a note, the IIGS is an outgrowth of the //x, if not what the //x was
>supposed to be (much of the stuff designed for the //x carried over.)
>        George A. Brownfield

At the Apple IIGS's intitial introduction for the press, Apple
brought Woz in to help discuss the machine, but did not claim that
he had any hand in its design.  Magazine article claims
notwithstanding, I think it would not be correct to think Woz had a
hand in the design of the IIGS.  (Though I'd like to see that
interview...)

The IIGS is a very different machine than the //x. The //x died;
the IIGS was born later.  While they shared the same processor,
the were based on differing philosophies, and had radically
different designs.

The IWM is also in the Mac, as memory serves, so it's not a design
for the IIc/e/GS.  And Woz wasn't on the Mac team.

My information is mostly second-hand.  Please correct me with direct
quotes from Woz or the designers, if necessary.

Grobbins.

[Let's see how long it's Apple II Forever now that the II is
 no longer Apple's cash cow.  Or is it?]