Re: Rumours on slotted/colour/68020 Mac?

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From: Richard Siegel
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1986 15:35

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"If the processor family is as upward compatible as it claims, why does
MacWrite need a patch to work with Levco's 68020?"

The processor is not the problem; it's the way that MacWrite calls ROM
instructions directly, instead of going thru the Mac trap dispatcher as most
right-thinking Macintosh applications do. Apparently the code for MacWrite is
so convoluted and hacked-up, if Randy Wigginton ever gets hit by a truck and
dies (god forbid), we're never going to see another version of MacWrite...

Personally, I think he oughta rewrite it...

		--Rich

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