henry@rochester.UUCP (Henry Kautz) (11/08/85)
So, the new "open" Mac will have a *SINGLE* expansion slot. Now, that's rumor that I find very credible, unlike all this silliness about Apple building a Unix machine. (Why on earth would Apple want to support another non-business-mainstream OS? Scully will have the Mac running DOS long before Unix...) But the single slot mac makes sense: 1. It proves that even with Jobs gone, Apple can continue to bungle the Mac. Consumers are reassured by consistency in a company. 2. Companies (including Apple) will make big $$$ on the boards for that slot, because users will have to keep throwing out their old boards, and buying more and more powerful and costly multi-function boards, whenever they need a new hardware feature. 3. It will prevent any 3rd party from introducing a popular color board for the Mac. Most upscale users will have that slot filled with more memory or a tape-backup controller, and thus there will not be a sufficient market for a color board. Apple, of course, wants everyone to throw away their computers and buy a new color mac when they are introduced in 1987. ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: {seismo|allegra}!rochester!henry :arpa: henry@rochester :mail: Dept. of Comp. Sci., U. of Rochester, NY 14627 :phone: (716) 275-5766
spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) (11/08/85)
Not that I believe all these dumb Dvorak rumours, but if Apple were to come out with a 'one slot' Macintosh, it wouldn't be too bad; the very first product to go into it would be a bus extender, and the second product for it would be an expansion box......into which you could put all the scsi, color, and other widget cards (even (*GACK!*) and IBM-PC clone-card) your heart could desire. But then again, so much for Dvorak's rumors, I'll wait till the superbowl to see what the commercial says.... :-) :-) :-) ( The only improvement I *!REALLY!* want to see from Apple in the coming months is for them to actually ship a product ON TIME. {Lord, could I use a HardDisk20! or the MDS512 developement system} Newer, Nifty-ier Macintoshes would be neeto too, but only if you can get one :-) David Spector NYU/acf Systems Group ARPAnet: SPECTOR@NYU USEnet : ...!{allegra,rocky,ihnp4,siesmo}!cmcl2!spector ^----That's an L, not a one.