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The IWM is socketed to allow an upgrade path for Sony 1.2 meg disk drives and alternative encoding schemes in the future, both being actively pursued by Apple engineering. The Integrated Woz Machine has been reduced even further so that now it is a tiny custom IC.
This is truly a beautiful 68020 single board computer implementation as shown in figure 1, with every consideration given to the on-going development efforts both within Apple and from Motorola.
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The most fascinating part of the conference was the description of the Mac II hardware.
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No doubt a complete Apple IIGS emulator card will arrive from someone in the near future that would allow the Mac II to run Apple II software without modification. In fact, the Mac II may be the most flexible computer ever designed. It may be possible to open an MS/DOS window on one video, Mac Finder on another, and Unix on yet a third, with complete movement of information between the three. With alternative CPU cards acting as NuBus masters, each window could also be an emulation of another computer architecture as well. When future multi-tasking Finders are ready, each window will be an active application, switchable by a simple mouse click. Multiple video displays are automatically supported by the window manager and color manager so that you could set up a Mac II with three video displays and move windows across screen boundaries. A color picker utility and improved control panel access allow the user complete freedom to configure the desired 256 colors from the pallette. Better video cards just make the match that much closer to being exact. The RGB color is then matched to a best fit for that color in the video card's color table automatically. The generalization allows applications to specify color in RGB space, a cube structure 16 x 16 x 16. By comparison, the IBM implementation is grammar school stuff. The generalization of color quickdraw means it will support new video hardware well into the future without any changes to current application software. Each window retains its own color table, which are switched as each window becomes active by the color manager.
The initial Apple video card (and SuperMac Spectrum card) allows 256 colors from the pallette at one time, using an 8 bits per pixel index, but the intricate color quickdraw is far superior to the modes of the IBM, allowing sophisticated mixing of color into new colors, and animation of the color tables. The number of colors available at one time is dependent only on the amount of memory on the NuBus video card, which in 24 bit mode can be up to 1 megabyte per NuBus slot. The new IBM machines look very much like the Mac II, having 256 colors out of 250,000 even! Of course the Mac II with color quickdraw uses 16 bits each for the blue, red and green, making a 48 bit color selection, which allows 16 million color combinations, using 24 bit color table entries. A few Mac fans slipped off their Apple badges and infiltrated the IBM crowd to carry off the product descriptions of the Mac-alike PCs. In fact, the six hundred Mac and Apple developers had to cross through the reception area for the big IBM announcement to get to the conference rooms where the new Mac II hardware was being discussed.
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Smith, Editor & Publisher, MacTutorĪpple held it's Spring Developer Conference this week at the TechMart / Doubletree Inn in San Jose, just as IBM announced their new PC System 2 computers. Mac II Volume Number: 3 Issue Number: 5 Column Tag: Developer's Conferenceīy David E. Educational Institution and Student Discounts.
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