korn@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (01/12/87)
The MacWorld show is over (thank God!), and none too soon. Another day
and I'm certain my feet would have given out. But enough of these complaints
and on to the show itself...
The Good:
Centrams Tops products. They were linked to PC's and 4.3BSD machines.
Knetics Ethernet/AppleTalk bridge. Centram was using it.
Hayes & their interbridge product. Centram was using it.
Farralon & their appletalk alternative. Centram was using it too!
Think Technologies, and the four products they were showing,
including LightSpeedC ver. 2.01 (which I purchased at the show),
and their network print spooler.
Adobe and their Illustrator program (very nice for PostScript
graphics).
MicroSoft and their new Word. Very nice.
SuperMac, and their new drives. Also a very old drive that
had survived a train wreck, and was still running (and on display).
CricketDraw, which is a hot program. I hear that it's a bit
buggy, but haven't had any first hand experience with it.
Studio session, which HAS to be heard to be believed.
Various and sundry big screens, all of which really want to be
sitting on my desk, really they do!
Pagemaker 2.0. Very clean, with many MANY new features. This
one blows the others away quite nicely (in my opinion).
MacMemmory & their pretty cheap turbo board--16Mhz 68000 & 1.5 Meg
for $1,500 or so. Their Hundya Excel display was tacky though...
The McIntosh apples that MacWorld was handing out free. Best
I've ever tasted--really.
The Not so Good:
InfoWorld & their 'informant' booth. Tacky tacky tacky.
LetraSet & their 11th hour product switch. Tacky tacky tacky.
Ann Arbor and FullWord. I'm not saying that it's a bad product,
or that they market bad products. But all that hype and boasting
over a product that they weren't really even demoing is just
a little tacky. However, I DO look forward to seeing what they
come up with--they've a very good reputation thus far.
Some of the prices a couple of the User's groups were charging
for shareware collections. BMUG was very good ($2/disk), but
some of the others weren't.
The conferences, which were not very well miked, and also
plagued (at least the ones I went to) with lighting and
video problems.
The prices for food.
The worthy of mention:
Write Now & MindWrite, both of which are good products. The mac
is FINALLY getting some competition in the word processing mkt.
The many hard drives shown. Some good, some not so good. All
getting fairly competitive (not necessarily at the retail price
level, but at the 'what it's sold at' level).
Print spoolers are comming for the LW. Think had one, and
SuperMac will be shipping one any time now (I'll let you know
how the copy they gave me works out).
The sheer number of folks in business suits there. Nobody
can say that the business community isn't taking the machine
seriously.
APDA, the Apple Programmers & Developers Association, which will
be distributing MPW, documentation, and some third party stuff
at pretty good prices (though not the lowest available).
Excel, which is still the best spreadsheet available, though
many have challenged it (including a new one, Trapeze).
The very few companies with games stuff (only MindScape & the
folks who came out with the Challenger simulator, as near
as I can recall).
An interesting rumor:
Overheard at the Levco booth: The 68020 can supposedly be
microcoded so as to run identically to a 80386. Someone
even suggested that at 25 Mhz 68020 would do such at 3 MIPS.
Any comments from the hardware experts out there as to
how hard/easy this would be to do?
All for now folks. I've a long night ahead of me (LightSpeedC's a calling).
Peter
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{decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn make library calls.srm@iris.berkeley.edu (Richard Mateosian) (01/16/87)
> Overheard at the Levco booth: The 68020 can supposedly be > microcoded so as to run identically to a 80386. Someone > even suggested that at 25 Mhz 68020 would do such at 3 MIPS. That's ridiculous. Richard Mateosian ...ucbvax!ucbiris!srm 2919 Forest Avenue 415/540-7745 srm@iris.Berkeley.EDU Berkeley, CA 94705
schoff@rpics.UUCP (01/16/87)
In article <2221@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, srm@iris.berkeley.edu (Richard Mateosian) writes: > > Overheard at the Levco booth: The 68020 can supposedly be > > microcoded so as to run identically to a 80386. Someone > > even suggested that at 25 Mhz 68020 would do such at 3 MIPS. > > That's ridiculous. > Richard Mateosian ...ucbvax!ucbiris!srm 2919 Forest Avenue > 415/540-7745 srm@iris.Berkeley.EDU Berkeley, CA 94705 I think that the MMU instructions would be tough for the 68020 to be handled alone but don't forget that IBM has been shipping a XT370 and a AT370 which use a 68000+8087+"other hardware" with new microcode to support a 370 "architecture" and run a variant of VM/CMS. This is not something I would like to do though. Of course IBM can throw oodles of money and hundreds of people and get a "solution", I'll bet Motorola is REAL interested in running their chip as a 80386 :-) -- marty schoffstall schoff@csv.rpi.edu seismo!rpics!schoff
sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (08/09/87)
Those of you who are going to the Boston expo, stop by the Odesta booth and say hi! I'll be there talking to people about the book I'm writing about Double Helix (I _do not_ work for Odesta). I really want to hear what you'd like to see in a DH book; it's not too late to affect the topics that I cover, since we don't go to press until October. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications seismo!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
darrell@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM (04/10/88)
Can anyone tell me when the MacWorld Expo is happening in Boston this
summer? I've looked through MacWorld and MacUser and haven't been able
to find the date.
Thanks in advance.
--
Darrell McIntosh
Gould CSD, Urbana Software Development Center
1101 E. University Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 384-8500
Internet: darrell@xenurus.Urbana.Gould.COM
Usenet: {ihnp4,uunet}!uiucuxc!urbsdc!darrelldwh@rayssdb.ray.com (David W. Humphrey) (07/26/88)
What are the exact dates and times of the Boston Macworld Expo? I need to know which days to call in sick :-} Thanks! -- "Insolent boy, this slave of passion, David W. Humphrey Basking in your glory! Raytheon Company Ignorant fool, this brave young suitor, Portsmouth, Rhode Island Sharing in my triumph!" -The Phantom dwh@rayssdb.RAY.COM
sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (07/27/88)
in article <2005@rayssdb.ray.com>, dwh@rayssdb.ray.com (David W. Humphrey) says: > > > > What are the exact dates and times of the Boston Macworld Expo? > > I need to know which days to call in sick :-} > The official public days are: August 11 - 13 (August 10 is a special day for "invited" persons only ... I'm not quite sure who or what gets invited, though it probably helps to be a big corporate buyer ....) To the best of my knowledge, exhibit hours are 10 am to 5 pm, but don't quote that as gospel. Stop by the Odesta booth (at the World Trade Center) and say "hi", folks. I'll be hyping and signing copies of my Double Helix book. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) (08/09/88)
I just found out I'm going. Great! I'd like to attend the conferences. Unfortunately, it's too late to register for the Wang conferences. If anyone has signed up and can't attend, I'd like to buy your ticket. The general conferences start at 12:00 and the exhibits start at 11:00. Is there anything else going on in the morning? Thanks, Fred Hollander Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc. holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.