22 Jul
2000
22 Jul
'00
2:30 a.m.
I have read something at applefritter that intrigued
me: that Apple was
thinking about marketing a system known as the "Johnathon" (Successor the
the Mac, perhaps?). The basic design was very similar to that of an Acorn
RISC PC: You bought the base "module" (What OS that run? Mac OS?) as it was
called, & you could buy additional modules that would allow you to run other
operating systems. Unfortunately, Apple canned this computer because they
thought that everybody would just buy the MS-DOS module.
My question is: Was this the original concept for the Mac II, or is this
something completely diffrent.
No. Johnathan and the Mac II were in fact competing projects.
The book AppleDesign has some beautiful pictures of the system as well as a nice overview:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888001259/theapplefritter
Tom
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