evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall) (05/16/84)
<---> The 5/14 issue of Electronics Engineering Times has an article reporting on future Apple Macs. The claim is that the next Mac (called "fat mac" in the article) will compete more directly with the IBM XT. The new machine would have the following: o either an internal hard disk or an upgraded interface port that would talk to an external unit at 5 MHz. o 512k RAM o double sided 3.5" Sony disks The original Mac would be continued and would be upgradable to the expanded version through the swap of the digital board with its larger 256k RAMS and improved ports. They suggested $3k for the "fat mac" and $2k for the 128k version - no estimate on the price of the board swap. (the $3k is w/o hard disk) The article goes on to mention that the first development language that will run on the Mac will be an assembler due out in July. It will access the entire toolbox and include a debugger - you will also need 2 Macs to use it. A subset that runs on a single Mac will also appear at that time. Stand alone versions of C and Pascal suitable for software development will be out around Dec. _______________________________________________ So it looks like quite a wait for software development tools if one waits for Apple. Does anyone know about any other firms that will offer things like C compilers? Steve Crandall (ihnp4)!mhuxt!evans