<story><title>AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)</title><url>http://michaeljmahon.com/AppleCrateII.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cable2600</author><text>What if Apple did not invent the Macintosh? They would just parallel Apple II systems together for more speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>No. New cheap microprocessors were being released constantly that were much faster than what was in Apple II, it was clear to everyone that the future was in new machines with one of the better chips.&lt;p&gt;The one big mistake Woz made when designing Apple II was picking the MOS 6502 CPU. It made sense at the time, because for the price it was the technically best chip available. The problem was that the company that made it was in serious trouble for multiple reasons.[0] Soon after the Apple II was released, MOS had to accept a low bid buyout offer from Commodore to not go bankrupt, and as Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel absolutely loathed to spend money on literally anything, this basically ended future development of the line.&lt;p&gt;[0](Mainly, terrible IP practices. MOS was founded because a Motorola engineer recognized a huge market niche that Motorola was poorly serving, and despite repeated pleas to the management, they chose not to do anything. So he set out with a few co-conspirators to found a new chip company to serve that market. However, he chose to design his chip to be way too similar to 6800 that Motorola was already making, and immediately after release Motorola sued them for stealing the design. During discovery, it was found that at MOS there were internal technical manuals related to the Motorola chip that were Motorola property and that the founders took with them when they left. Motorola won, took basically all of the profit that MOS had made, but allowed the company to continue operating.)</text></comment>
<story><title>AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)</title><url>http://michaeljmahon.com/AppleCrateII.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cable2600</author><text>What if Apple did not invent the Macintosh? They would just parallel Apple II systems together for more speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmf</author><text>No, they would have invented something faster that wasn&amp;#x27;t a Mac. Perhaps an evolution of the &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;GS.</text></comment>