Apr 87 Mousehole
Volume Number: 3
Issue Number: 4
Column Tag: Mousehole Report
Mousehole Report 
By Rusty Hodge, Contributing Editor, Mousehole BBS
AppleWorld Report
From: David Smith
I don’t see any Apple World posts this morning so I’ll post what I saw. The SE is a
definite improvement over the Plus. 25% speed up due to a big 4K gate array replacing
all the memory management PALS. From the window level, the SE seemed very snappy
in comparison to the Mac Plus. In fact, the Mac II did not seem that much faster than
the SE at the desktop level. The SE has 256K ROM including improved SCSI and
Appletalk stuff. The II also has 256K ROM, but not the same ROMS. It has color
quickdraw, colorized managers ( window, dialogs etc), NuBus slot package, and 68881
SANE package. The SE also has SANE in ROM but not the 68881 version. The integrated
Woz machine disk interface has been reduced even more to a very tiny custom chip!
Amazing if your an old Apple timer. The II has a Sony made universal switching power
supply. The slots and power supply look a lot like an Apple II. Its a beautiful single
board implementation of the 68020/68881 with a whole bunch of custom flat pack ICs
of various sizes. Both machines have increased custom chip density. The ROMS feature
new text edit packages that support a style record that handles multiple fonts! (At least
I think its in both ROM sets). Apple’s version of Unix on the Mac II allows plug in
compatibility replacement for a Sun or Apollo workstation in a Unix net. And you can
still have the Mac window interface in a Unix environment. The II is dynamite in the
workstation market. They said the May ship date on the II may slip... The power supply