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BigEd

Post subject: 1986: Woz on the 65816 and Apple IIGS

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:06 pm

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Here's a short textual interview from a 1986 "Compute!" where Steve Wozniak talks about the IIGS project and the 65816.

He was hoping for an 8MHz design but it got scaled back (to a shade under 3MHz)

Via topic "Why C= never made a 65816 based machine?" on amiga.org

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BigDumbDinosaur

Post subject: Re: 1986: Woz on the 65816 and Apple IIGS

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:28 pm

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BigEd wrote:

I recall that interview. Particularly telling was Woz's comment at the end:

Wozniak: For the home, I still usually recommend the II over the Mac. If you are an AppleWorks person, the II is all you need. And, as I said, I love the IIGS.

The Macs of the time, of course, were a closed system...zilch expandability. For a hardware type like Wozniak, being forced to use a Mac would have been the computer equivalent of being put in jail.

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