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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 90 13:25:25 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET>
Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut
Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE column for May '90
To: INFO-MICRO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL, comp-sys-amiga@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU,
Apple 2 Newslist <INFO-APPLE@APPLE.COM>,
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VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the May 1990 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
This is the 6th anniversary edition of this column
Can You Say October?
Although Apple officials continue to describe Macintosh
System 7.0 in public as "on schedule," private sources close
to Apple say the project is falling two or three days behind
schedule each week and a release before harvest time is
unlikely. If a version is announced this summer, it will be
missing some of the anticipated features (which will become
"Christmas presents"). - InfoWorld 9 April
Brier to Ship 20 Mbyte Floppy.
Brier Technology has begun shipping their 20 Mbyte floptical
drive (see the September and October 1988 columns) to
manufacturers last month. A consumer version called the
Stor/Mor will be shipped by Q/Cor (formerly Quadram) in June
(about 18 months later than originally anticipated). An
internal (AT bus) unit will sell for $795, an external (AT
or SCSI) will be $895 and an external with MCA adapter will
cost $995. Average access time is 35 milliseconds, and
preformatted 3.5 inch floptical disks will be $25 each.
- InfoWorld 9 April
The NeXT Macintosh?
Steve Jobs and John Sculley have been spotted in each
other's company recently. Rumor has it that acquisition of
NeXT by Apple (or perhaps the other way around?) has been on
the agenda. So far Apple's board of directors have said
"no" to any proposed deals.
- InfoWorld and PC Week 16 April
A/UX Does It All.
When version 2.0 of A/UX ships in August, the Macintosh will
become the only personal computer capable of simultaneously
running UNIX, Macintosh, MS-DOS, and Windows software.
"32-bit clean" Macintosh software, which also will be
required by the announced Macintosh System 7.0, will also
run under A/UX. One announced 32-bit clean program also
scheduled to ship in August, is the new version of Insignia
Solutions Soft PC. The new Soft PC provides a complete
emulation of the PS/2 Model 70, and Insignia says it will be
capable of running Window's 3.0 (as fast as a 20 MHz Model
70 on a Mac IIfx) and the newest color VGA software. PC
Soft will also run under Mac System 7.0.
- InfoWorld 2 April
Unix for the Hobbyist.
Atari demonstrated a 68030 machine with a Unix operating
system at the Hannover Computer Fair. Atari plans to offer
the base model for less than $2,000. - PC Week 26 March
Intel CPU Evolution.
Additional details about Intel's i586, i686, and i786
processors seem to be appearing quarterly (see last August,
October, and January's columns). Production of the two
million transistor i586 is forecast for 1992 (please allow
for usual "vaporware" slippage; that date already is a year
later than predicted last July). The chip will measure 2.5
inches by 2.5 inches, and performance should be more than
twice that of the i486. It will have two caches, one for
instructions and one for data. The four to five million
transistor i686 is scheduled for 1996, and the spectacular
one inch by one inch 100 million transistor i786 is
envisioned for the turn-of-the-century. According to
Intel's David House, the i786 will contain four tightly
coupled parallel integer processors and two vector
processors operating at 250 MHz and delivering 700 MIPS. A
two Mbyte cache memory will supply the six processors and
the bus interface will support digital video.
- InfoWorld and PC Week 26 March
Pen Input Systems.
Several major small computer makers and laptop vendors are
on the verge of bringing out systems designed to let users
substitute a pen for keyboard and mouse, but development is
limited by a paucity of software. Some developers say that
major applications that would let users really take
advantage of pen input hardware still is a long way off.
Slate Corporations, a Scottsdale, Arizona start-up, is
widely acknowledged as working exclusively on applications
for pen input systems. Slate has had little to say publicly
about its activities - could they be the Ashton Tate or
Lotus or the 90's? - InfoWorld 16 April
Shirt Pocket AT.
Chips and Technologies has announced a complete AT
compatible on one board (see last January's column). The
motherboard needs only three chips to handle all system
logic, I/O, mass storage, and VGA output. The Highly
Integrated AT Chip Set will sell to original equipment
manufacturers for only $69. - Computer Chronicles 21 April
SPARCstation II.
Sun isn't about to sit still while IBM sells everyone a
System 6000 PowerStation. Announcements for the new
SPARCstations will begin in June (a 12.5 MIP, 8 Mbyte RAM
model). By the time school starts in September, look for a
25 MIP Sun workstation in the $10,000 price range.
- PC Week 16 April
Reprogrammable Microcode.
Insiders contend that the ROMP II RISC chip in the IBM
RS/6000 PowerStations has a built in capability to field
upgrade the microcode. The current PowerStations run at 4
instructions per cycle, but development already is underway
to produce a ROM upgrade to 16 instructions per cycle. In
theory, the processor is capable of (at least) 128
instructions per cycle. - InfoWorld 16 April
MS-DOS 5.0.
Beta testing of the next version of MS-DOS begins this month
with delivery to customers expected by September - much
later than previously anticipated. - InfoWorld 2 April
33 MHz i486.
AST Research is the first to offer a system built around the
new Intel 33 MHz i486 CPU, samples of which were shipped to
manufacturers at the end of March. The AST Premium 486/33
is scheduled to ship this month with an AT bus and 4 Mbytes
of RAM for less than $10,000 ($9,995 to be precise).
- InfoWorld 2 April
i486 Laptop.
JKL of Silver Springs, Maryland plans to announce an i486
color laptop this summer. The VGA color flat-screen (not
LCD) is made by Sharp. A model with 1 Mbyte of RAM, a 40
Mbyte hard drive and an 8 hour battery will weigh in at 15
pounds and retail for only $7,500. - PC Week 9 April
IBM's Blues.
IBM hasn't announced a 33 MHz 80386 model or their new 80286
(AT bus) laptop because neither has been able to obtain FCC
approval. Meanwhile Big Blue may enter the notebook size
market with a 6-pound unit made by Ricoh. The notebook
already is for sale under IBM's label in Japan where it is
known as Mr. My Tool (likely to be renamed for the U.S.
market). - InfoWorld 9 April
Improved Ultralite.
NEC's next generation Ultralite (due in July) will be
one-half inch wider and one-quarter inch thicker in order to
accommodate a 20 or 40 Mbyte hard drive and an 3.5 inch
external drive port (along with a VGA display and a ROM card
slot similar to the one in the present model). The standard
configuration will have 1 Mbyte of RAM and a 640 by 480
backlit display. NEC's price will be under $4,000.
- InfoWorld 16 April
Compaq SLT/386
A 20 MHz 80386SX version of the popular Compaq SLT laptop is
slated for a June introduction. A choice of a 20 Mbyte or
40 Mbyte hard disk will be offered along with a backlit VGA
display and a 3 hour battery. - PC Week 16 April
IBM Office Vision Does Windows.
The big Windows 3.0 rumor this month is that the planned 22
May introduction (see last month's column) is still on.
Developers plan to show new products for Windows 3.0 at
Comdex in June regardless of whether Microsoft is ready to
deliver, and Zenith, IBM, and Tandy plan to begin bundling
Windows 3.0 with their 80386 offerings during the summer.
IBM's Windows implementation of Office Vision won't be
announced by the next Comdex, but sources have confirmed
that development is underway.
- InfoWorld March 26 and 2 April
Filemaker Pro.
Claris plans to begin shipping a new version of its
shareable flat-file database in June. The program is 30
percent faster than Filemaker II and features more than 100
improvements including many of the graphic manipulation
tools found in other Claris programs such as MacDraw.
- InfoWorld 2 April and PC Week 9 April
Kapitalist Tool.
Microsoft recently announced the first Russian language
version of MS-DOS and plans to release a Russian version of
Microsoft Works this summer. - Computer Chronicles 21 April
A Wave of New Applications.
Nearly two dozen software developers plan to introduce
applications for Hewlett-Packard's New Wave object-oriented
environment for Microsoft Windows. New Wave software is
currently limited to one communications package and a single
file retrieval utility. - PC Week 9 April
New Apple II (Continued).
Apple IIgs owners saving up for a new ROM 04 machine will
have to save for a new monitor too. Current Apple IIgs
monitors will flicker on the new machine which will have
interlaced graphics. Apple's "rethinking" of the II line's
future is still said to be inconclusive, but insiders feel
certain that the ROM 04 machine will be introduced -
eventually. - found in my electronic mailbox
/s Murph <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu> [Internet]
or ...{psuvax1 or mcvax}!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall [UUCP]
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