jhamby on Nostr: There's this myth that the Apple IIGS was so relatively slow at 2.8 MHz because Apple ...

There's this myth that the Apple IIGS was so relatively slow at 2.8 MHz because Apple was intentionally trying to prevent it from outshining or even embarrassing the Mac. That's not why it's slow.

From what I've read from both people who were there and looking at the state of the art in 1986, the Apple IIGS designers were limited by the speed of available DRAM and the max speed of the 65C816 chips that WDC could deliver (claimed 8 MHz then).

There's a speed/voltage curve in the '816 datasheet.