15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
5:55 a.m.
On 15 April 2013 13:32, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 April 2013 13:09, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at
yahoo.com.au> wrote:
That is not quite fair. There was no connection, hardware or software,
between Apple's 6502 line and its later 68000 lines.
Apple had about 5 desktop product lines:
Apple I (was there any Apple 2 compatibility there?)
Apple II -> IIgs (6502 -> 65816)
Apple III (not forward or backwards compatible with anything else, was it?)
Apple Lisa
Apple Mac (68K -> PowerPC -> x86)
Plus the Workgroup Servers, some of which were essentially IBM
RS/6000s and couldn't run any form of MacOS).
Well, my 32 bit Mac Mini has been abandonded by Apple a few versions
ago, as Mac OS/X is now 64 bit only.
Funny, I can still get versions of Windows or Linux that support it,
no problems. The transition from 68000 to PowerPC was hardly what
you'd call smooth either. Several versions of System 7 were, well,
absolutely unusable garbage.
Running (nearly) the whole OS though an emulator is not what I'd call smooth. (;
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