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I always assumed it was a compromise between memory usage, refresh speed, and the GUI that they wanted. Don't forget that the Macintosh was preceded by the Lisa
by phendrenad2 1y ago
I always assumed it was a compromise between memory usage, refresh speed, and the GUI that they wanted. Don't forget that the Macintosh was preceded by the Lisa (800x364) and the IIGS (640x200), so they probably had a good sense for what was comfortable given a certain resolution.
- sgerenser 1y agoThe IIGS came out well after the original Macintosh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Don't forget that the Macintosh was preceded by the Lisa (800x364) and the IIGS (640x200), Lisa was January 1983 Macintosh was January 1984 Apple IIgs was September 1986
- wkat4242 1y agoThe Lisa was also about twice as expensive as the Macintosh which is why it failed hard. So the price limited the hardware and that caused this display bandwidth constraint.