Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <8908212314.aa24101@ADM.BRL.MIL> Date: 22 Aug 89 03:51:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 Long message Rick, it took nearly a week to wend its way through all the system glitches and accompanying mail backlogs. >remind you that Apple never promised anything like the fabled GS+ model Seems to me both John Sculley and Jean Louis Gassey have been promising SOMETHING a tad more substantial than more RAM and more efficient ROM (perhaps at AppleFest? Surely Apple has *something* to showoff at Applefest?) >Let's look at the evolution of the Mac, shall we? It started with 128K OK, the gist of all that is Rev 3 is the IIgs equivalent of the FatMac? Gee, maybe the IIgs+ isn't going to be good enough; perhaps if I wait for the IIgs-SE or the <*gasp*> IIgsII <-- doncha love it? >Why did the Mac Plus take off? Because we gave our users a machine that >could perform the tasks that they wanted to do without being saddled >by the OS... And the IIgs+ <--NOTE PLUS! will take off for the same reason. I think I buy your whole pitch. The IIgs Rev 3 is about as exciting as the Mac 512E compared to the 128K version (nicer but not nice enough), and the NeXT (couldn't resist :-) model will be the "breakthrough" one (if you guys don't let Video Technologies beat you to it -- Laser-gs coming this Winter to a toy store near you :-O Really, I appreciate the problem (not enough fast 65816 chips available to support the volume needed to meet the demand a IIgs+ would generate). So, what you holding back for AppleFest -- the MacBoard for the IIgs? /s Murph I bought the latest computer; it came fully loaded. It was guaranteed for 90 days, but in 30 was outmoded! - The Wall Street Journal passed along by Big Red Computer's SCARLETT