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From: sds@fizban.Fizban.MN.ORG (Steven D. Splinter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Gassee's Interview
Message-ID: <53@fizban.Fizban.MN.ORG>
Date: 1 Aug 88 03:05:10 GMT
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From article <8807221316.AA05915@crash.cts.com>,
by tsouth@pro-pac.cts.COM (Todd South):
>In Article: <910@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> prw@meccsd (Paul R. Wenker) writes:
> 
>> The reason that Apple didn't make the GS faster was that at the time
>> they couldn't get reliable 65816's at any speed higher than 2.8 mhz.
>> Why is it that everybody is so quick to accuse Apple of a conspiracy?
> 
>> -Paul R. Wenker                 prw@meccsd
>> -MECC, Technical Services
> 
> Sorry, Paul.  You may believe this, but I have too many friends, which I
> consider in-the-know, that tell me just the opposite.  As a matter of fact,
> there was a person that purchased one of the original //gs machines and
> souped it up with his own hardware to run at 15 Mhz (I can't really tell
> you what effective throughput on that would be).  Last I heard, he was
> in a deal with Apple on the machine, but that's his business.  My point
> is that, IMHO, there is no reason that the //gs should have come out on
> the market with less than an 8 Mhz processor. [rest of article deleted]

	Sorry Todd, The reason was (as Paul has already pointed out) that
	Western Digital couldn't deliver reliable 65816's in QUANTITY at
	anything faster than 2.8MHz.  You can find a few, very rare, chips
	of ANY processor that run MUCH faster than they're rated to go, but
	in order to make a machine like the IIgs, you need a consistant,
	reliable and predictable supply of processors.

	Any 8MHz IIgs would be nice, and I'd LOVE to work on it, instead of
	the rather clunky 2.8MHz version we all know and love, but there's
	no big conspiracy in Apple.  If they could have brought it out at
	7+ MHz, I'm sure they would have.

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