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. -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@avalanche.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)