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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Converting between Mac and MS-DOS
Message-ID: <38053@sun.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 88 20:35:17 GMT
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In article <2563@sfsup.UUCP>, shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro) writes:
> 
> Yes, it's true. Way back when they put together the Apple I,

No.  It was the Apple][...it had slots for connecting new
devices in.

> Steve Wozniack came up with this frob called an IWM (for
> Integrated Woz Machine). 

The IWM is the working innards of the Disk][ controller.

> On the macs, this was put into a
> a PLA, and consequently you can't get around it.

The IWM was reimplemented as a single chip for the Apple//c,
and is currently used there, in the //gs, and the Mac.

	seh