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> Interesting that the 1981 Mac design was for a cheaper computer with GUI graphics like the Lisa. The 1981 design also had significantly lower resolution grap

• Someone 3y ago
  Early 1982. https://folklore.org/Five_Different_Macs.html https://folklore.org/Five_Different_Macs.html: “In the beginning of 1982, the original 68000 design was more than a year old, and the software was nowhere near finished, so Burrell was afraid some of the trade-offs of the original design were no longer current. He used the expansive canvas of a custom chip, where additional logic was almost free, to update the architecture. The most important decision was admitting that the software would never fit into 64K of memory and going with a full 16-bit memory bus, requiring 16 RAM chips instead of 8. The extra memory bandwidth allowed him to double the display resolution, going to dimensions of 512 by 342 instead of 384 by 256. He also added bells and whistles like a fancy, DMA-fed sound generator with four independent voices. This was the fourth version of the Macintosh design.”
  • rbanffy 3y ago
    I wish they had used the same 12" screen used on the Lisa, but in a vertical position (and with some extra pixels from a slightly faster memory system - or a slightly slower frame rate and longer persistence).