I remember waiting for the release of the //gs, calling Apple (via phreaking, of course, long distance was expensive) to confirm the details, then laughing and laughing with my Amiga 1000 buddies about how primitive it was.
(We had switched from Apple to Amiga, skipping the Mac because it was hellaciously expensive.)
The use of a 2.8 MHz clock was a marketing decision intended to limit the IIgs’ performance to a level lower than that of the Macintosh, a decision that had a critical effect on the Apple IIgs’ success.[2] In actuality, the 65C816 processor was capable of running at a much higher clock rate.
Thanks, Jobs. (Looks like 4-5Mhz was easily possible, and some later versions even went to 20Mhz. But since the Mac had no colors, no fancy sound… it had to be crippled.)
