Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!atncpc!bruce
From: bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
Summary: Get A Clue!
Message-ID: <279@atncpc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 90 20:00:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul7.230927.23012@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Ashton Tate NCPC, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Jul7.230927.23012@midway.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
> 
> BTW, I received some confirmation thru e-mail that at least one important
> person did in fact leave Next.  Can't remember right now who that was.  (Of
> course the VP of Marketing, whom I know, did leave some time ago).
> 
> 
> Robert
> 

This is pretty stale though,  Dan'L (some weird spelling) Lewin left to go
be something importiant at GO corp.  It seems Steve J. told him to produce
results or go screw up somebody else's company (not a quote at all).

But this was at least 4 months ago.  

The Mac The Knife column should be viewed as fictional entertainment, and
nothing more.  Some of the stuff they print in there are so ludicris (SP?)
that it seems that the person authoring the column has no understanding 
of the way things (physically) work.

Included in this list of stupidity are references to a dedicated Mac Server
machine due (soon?) with an '040, 64 Meg of Ram, a 300 Watt power supply 
and room for 4 drives in the case. (May 22nd Mac Week) I guess this guy
never figured out that the Mac OS is hardwired to an upper limit of 
14 Meg.  That's right! unless you are running A/UX, that's all the machine
will address!

The June 5th issue includes refrence to a 25Mhz '020 mac with 2 MB of ram
soldered onto the motherboard.  1) Apple gets '030 from Moto cheaper than
they get '020 's 2) Apple has been using SIMMS for a long time, with good
results.  Why solder RAM to the board? (And maybe Ashton Tate has the 
Machine they are talking about and Maybe I am looking under the lid right
now.... 8-)

All I'm saying is that the guy who writes up Mac The Knife must be a bufoon
for believing all the garbage his "Informants" give him.  The guy who used
to be Mac The Knife was a dude named Jonathan Perot.  I knew this guy 
personally, and he was really sharp.  But he got pissed an left Mac Week.
This guy (new one) must be a complete idiot!

Bruce Henderson
Ashton Tate NeXTeam
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