On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:58 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> On 4/30/2010 6:27 PM, Bob W wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>>> Here I can agree with you both. The CPU was not quite up to >>>> speed for >>>> a GUI system when Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1884. >>>> >>> That must have been the iSteam. >>> >> >> I believe it was hand cranked and machined entirely out of brass... >> > Before there was GUI on the Mac, you could run Quark Catalyst -- a mac-like > desktop -- an an apple //c or //e. Now that was slow. Apple //GS introduced > GUI at about the same time as the Mac launch, but the // processor made it > weird for some applications. > Paul
The //GS was actually a much more capable machine than the early Macs were, but had some PC-like hoops you had to jump through for software compatibility, a //GS really wasn't all that closely related to the earlier // models and that resulted in some software oddities where programmers had coded close to the hardware and expected certain behaviours. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
