kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) (03/20/90)
Yes, Apple had a big day today: A new Mac II, new system software, etc... I was hoping someone from Apple would post the press release, but Apple introduced the Mac //fx, which sounds like a VERY impressive machine..someone else can provide all the details, but the gist is that most (if not ALL) of the Mac's speed bottlenecks have been removed. However, there was no word on Apple // products (at least, not that we heard here at Princeton...but then, we get only Mac stuff, so maybe they only informed us of the Mac stuff). Andy Nicholas posted a few days ago that something good for Apple // users would happen today--did I miss it? [btw, that isn't an exact quote---I think he said something like things will turn around, or something]. Please tell me there was a Rom 04 machine introduced today... Kent Dickey kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) (03/20/90)
The Mac //fx is indeed a screamer of a machine. It is said to burn at 40 MHz and to be the fastest Mac ever. All in all, it seems a little pointless to make a mac run mac software that fast. However, I _would_ like to see the thing running as a workstation under MacMach (a version of Unix that CMU supports) but I don't think I will have the chance, and neither does the rest of the industry. You see, the //fx is to cost around 10 grand for the base model CPU. Lose. By the time you have a megapixel monitor, memory and storage, you're over $15,000! Go for a SparcStation or a DECStation or something else with a 3-button mouse. In the Apple // world, Apple announced a new SCSI card that can pump around a meg per second through direct memory access on a //gs. I think it is about half that for the //e. And the new Mac Hypercard 2.0 promises to be compatible with the (hint, hint) upcoming //gs Hypercard. Things are happening for the //, I'm comvinced, but they could come a little quicker! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | |staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U. | | Ya Gotta Love It. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (03/20/90)
In article <14694@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes: > Andy Nicholas posted a few days ago that something good for Apple // > users would happen today--did I miss it? [btw, that isn't an exact > quote---I think he said something like things will turn around, or > something]. Nah, I was just referring to (think it was todd's post) about the lack of decent development stuff for the gs and remarked that the lack of good development stuff might change on monday... well, I was wrong... I had hoped to be right, but the person working on this particular project was delayed a bit (not me). Oh well, sit and wait... :-) > Please tell me there was a Rom 04 machine introduced today... Nope, sorry, this has nothing to do with Apple Computer, Inc. :-) >Kent Dickey andy -- Yeah!