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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!!
Message-ID: <3552@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 89 06:00:36 GMT
References: <8908151330.AA04910@apple.com> <4171@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <4171@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> digitalfiend@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott D Palmer) writes:
>I find this news a little disturbing !
>No upgrade available ?!?  Not cost effective ?!?
>I'm sure that Apple intends to offer a ROM upgrade for the current GS owners...
>There certainly are a lot of us...
>
>I can't see any reason why Apple wouldn't offer an upgrade if the logic board
>was indeed re-designed and improved, no matter what the cost...
>To me, this really doesn't appear to be the actions of a customer concerned
>company.  I'm starting to feel very uneasy.

I deeply suspect that there is another GS waiting in the wings...I
feel uneasy too, but various cues I've picked up (very subjective, so
don't take this as Gospel) seem to indicate that this 1Meg GS is just
a production fix to make it a little cheaper to supply 512K+ machines.
Someone I talked to on AppleLink who had something to do with the IIGS
said not to consider this as the IIGS+, just a fatter IIGS.  Of
course that person didn't say that there WAS a IIGS, but I'm going to
keep the faith a little longer.

Now would be a good time for Apple to pre-announce the existence of a
Souped-Up GS.  Since production of the enhanced GS will not be in full
swing until this fall,  many people will wait on their purchasing
plans anyway.  I can see this GS as being a good education machine.
According to Matt on AppleLink PE, there are a number of features
(like a hardware Control-Panel disable on the motherboard) that seem
geared towards the school environment in general.  Maybe the GS+ will
be the Developer's Dream Machine, with "IIGS emulation" on all the
slow parts of memory :-)

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