Was the Apple //gs released AFTER the Apple ///? or before?
Also, are both of these machines backwards compatible with Apple ][ software?
Was the Apple //gs released AFTER the Apple ///? or before?
Also, are both of these machines backwards compatible with Apple ][ software?
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...and hardware?
Apple /// came before the GS and the Apple /// is only compatible with 48K Apple II software with an emulator for the Apple ///.
The GS is backward compatible with the II's.
Vince
Apple I
Apple II
Apple II+
Apple III
Apple IIe
Apple IIc
Apple IIgs
Taken from my (not always totally accurate) memory. Please post corrections if necessary.
* duplicate post, sorry *
Here you go:
Apple II Geneology
Ok, now can someone tell me why it's //, ///, ][ instead of II, please.
Apple chose ][ for the original Apple ][, ][+, and non-enhanced ][e. When enhanced, ][e became //e. And the Apple /// came out with the forward slash three.
Or simply put Apple made them, so why not?
Then using the slashes and brackets had no more significance than just a kind of marketing gimmick?
I think that the Apple IIgs used the 16-bit version of the 6502 (can't remebr what it is) which had a 6502 8-bit mode for running older software.
The Apple IIGS uses the Western Digital 65816 cpu, which in 8 bit mode enables it to run just about all the original Apple II software.
The enhanced Apple //e, the //c, and the //c+ all used CPU's with larger assembly language instruction sets. The change from the ][e to the //e signified that change. The IIGS was newer too, so it had it's own A.L. instruction set (this was built into the CPU).
Mutant_Pie
Thanks for all the info, guys!