ericmcg@pnet91 (Eric Mcgillicuddy) (11/05/90)
Mr. Zink, let's talk history for a bit. The Mac started out at 128k progressed to 512k and then to 1Meg in the PLUS. The GS started out a 256k progressed to 512k and the 1.125Meg in the ROM03 and then development was frozen. Permanently. Suppose the Mac were frozen at the Plus. This is the logical equivalent of the ROM03. No colour, not even gray scale. This puts a crimp in colour processing, regardless of resolution. No Virtual Memory. Ever. System7, if it ever gets released, will run but more memory is needed. I would say a fully populated 4Meg would work and is required for Multifinder. Compare this to the GS. Colour (not square pixels though), speed (accelerators are much easier to add), expansion (how many slots in a Plus?), DMA SCSI (and it is OS supported), sound (best available), Virtual memory (theoretical at this point), Truetype (also theoretical). The GS beats the Plus across the board except in DTP, but even this is possible, if painful, with a Postscript printer. The fact is though that Mac development was not stopped at the Plus, two new Macs are released every year, usually bigger than the ones before. Whose fault is it that the GS has not been improved? Not mine. Not yours. Not the GS's architecture certainly. Given a GS there is no need to wrap a Mac around a IIe, it's already there, and this gives you most of what a Mac is for the target market, home and education. Eric McGillicuddy Apple II Evangelist UUCP: bkj386!pnet91!ericmcg INET: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com
whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) (11/11/90)
|Mr. Zink, let's talk history for a bit. | |The Mac started out at 128k progressed to 512k and then to 1Meg in the PLUS. |The GS started out a 256k progressed to 512k and the 1.125Meg in the ROM03 and |then development was frozen. Permanently. | |Suppose the Mac were frozen at the Plus. This is the logical equivalent of the |ROM03. | |No colour, not even gray scale. This puts a crimp in colour processing, |regardless of resolution. | |No Virtual Memory. Ever. | |System7, if it ever gets released, will run but more memory is needed. I would |say a fully populated 4Meg would work and is required for Multifinder. | |Compare this to the GS. Colour (not square pixels though), speed (accelerators |are much easier to add), expansion (how many slots in a Plus?), DMA SCSI (and |it is OS supported), sound (best available), Virtual memory (theoretical at |this point), Truetype (also theoretical). | |The GS beats the Plus across the board except in DTP, but even this is |possible, if painful, with a Postscript printer. | |The fact is though that Mac development was not stopped at the Plus, two new |Macs are released every year, usually bigger than the ones before. Whose fault |is it that the GS has not been improved? Not mine. Not yours. Not the GS's |architecture certainly. | |Given a GS there is no need to wrap a Mac around a IIe, it's already there, |and this gives you most of what a Mac is for the target market, home and |education. | |Eric McGillicuddy |Apple II Evangelist I wish I said that!!! :) >APPLAUDS< You know the SE got VRAMs... sped it up a bit 10-20%... GS could do well with some VRAMs.