Posted By
MMS
on 2017-11-03
07:43:34
 |  Re: Revival of interesting 'n' funny stuffs
I think the Lisa/Macintosh line was not the best decision from Apple.
The Apple IIGS was cheaper and outperformed the Machintoshes (Plus and SE) of the same year in every way. (color, proper sound card, higher resolutions).
The CPU speed kept artificially low to do not outperform the Macintoshes, but still, was a way better computer.
The C64 SuperCPU run the same processor at 20MHz (14MHz was the official offer from CPU producer) while the IIGS was kept as low as 2.8MHz.
Ouch!
FYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso
I own a fantastic looking LC 475 (just for the housing, otherboard is broken, a HW project in my mind since years), but could be interesting, what would be the CPU history if the WDC chip would be supported io. Motorola line ( it was same as used in C64 external fast CPU)
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