fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (10/31/90)
Do you remember
A time in September...
|Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 15:36:53 EST
|From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu>
|Subject: ROM 04 (not a typo, ROM 04 :-)
|
|Apple has finally shipped 'non-disclosure' sites the NEW Apple II CPU which
|John Sculley promised for September '89. *IF* Apple decides to market the
|machine, the announcement will be next September (if Microsoft, Lotus,
|and Ashton Tate frequently are a year late getting expected new products
|out the door, why must Apple be any different)?
|
|The new Apple IIgs (currently designted "ROM 04") is not the wildly
|improbable "dream machine" being touted on BBS's from coast to coast.
|What Apple has in mind is not radically different from the current IIgs.
|More speed is what Apple II users have been crying for, and that's
|mainly what they'll get. The fact that Applied Engineering's Transwarp
|accelerator won't fit into the new box won't be a concern unless AE
|increases the Transwarp's speed above (at least) 7 MHz. Graphic resolution
|in the test models is 640 by 400. So far, the major problem developers
|are having with the beta-boxes is that much copy protected Apple II
|software crashes (since the "defanged" versions run, it's the
|protection schemes that are the source of the problem).
Of all the words
On Usenet or pen
The saddest are these:
It might have been.
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