Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:23758 comp.sys.apple2:276 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple has a busy day Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 90 01:03:45 GMT References: <14694@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: <14694@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> 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. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------