The latest release of sgug-rse brought us launchers for RSE apps in the standard icon catalog. This was relatively easy to set up by wrapping the update-desktop-database scripts to copy stuff into the catalog directory for IRIX. With a placeholder icon set, it looks like this:
The Apple IIgs came out on September 15, 1986. It featured a 2.8 MHz WDC 65816 CPU (the same one that powered the SNES and other similar computers of that era, a 16-bit CPU with 24-bit addressing), 256k or 1MB RAM (upgradable to 8 MB), and an Ensoniq 8-bit stereo synth (which was a welcome upgrade from the bit-speaker of the Apple II family). For reference, the original Apple II family was built around the 6502 CPU (8 bit, 16-bit addressing), and had at most 1 MB of RAM in the IIe and II+. However, it was not until 1988 that Apple had released an operating system for the new computer that was able to meaningfully leverage the newer hardware. GS/OS was written in native 16-bit code, and more importantly, was intended to be used via its new shiny GUI.
I’m installing Debian on my FW 800 MDD PowerMac G4, and I’m going to talk about it here so you too can convince yourself that your Friday night, is in fact, probably better.