Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Souped-Up GS Message-ID: <8908240922.aa13041@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 24 Aug 89 14:05:31 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 >I deeply suspect that there is another GS waiting in the wings... > >Now would be a good time for Apple to pre-announce the existence of a >Souped-Up GS... I've been at this "rumor" stuff long enough to have a "confidential source" or two. One recently told me that a "souped up" IIgs is NOT in the offing for this year. The reason is cost. At the moment there simply is NO SOURCE of faster 65816's in *sufficient volume* to meet the demand (or viewed another way, for Apple to be able to produce a IIgs in large enough production quantities to make a competitive system price possible). A IIgs that would cost more than a Mac IIci (about $6,000) is not what we have in mind is it? Note how much difficulty Appied Engineering is having meeting orders for TWGS's (and how many are delivered with a promise of a faster CPU "later") along with the difficulty Zip is having simply getting their accelerator on the market. AE and Zip are dealing with order quantites which are a fraction of the volume Apple would require to make a IIgs+ viable. I suppose Apple *could* pull an IBM move and announce a machine that would be almost impossible to actually obtain. That would simply *thrill* the customers wouldn't it (and Apple wouldn't make any profit on it either)? My source DID indicate that Apple was able to announce the ROM 3 IIgs now instead of waiting for AppleFest is that they DO have some more interesting (if not completely astonishing ;-) software AND hardware to unveil next month (and not just the Mac IIci and LapMac either). Western Design is promising production quantities of the 65832 next year. Maybe we'd all be better of if Apple invested their energy on developing a 32 bit Apple II (?) Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)