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From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: The Late Great Apple //
Message-ID: <waz4PZ600awLNAxqcV@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 90 05:23:49 GMT
Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Fellas, in establishing this here User's Group at CMUniversity, I have
had more fun rebuilding a ][-plus than I thought possible. The thing
was donated to us along with a CP/M boards and a Videx Ultraterm
80-column card. (Would someone like to mail me what stuff I can do
with this? Like modifications to allow Appleworks to run?)

I will keep writing and pushing for my little Apple //gs (with a new
power supply, BTW) until whenever. But John Sculley's letter in
Incider has done it for me. From the horse's mouth, the MAN equated
the future of Apple // hardware to Macintoshes with emulation cards.
With 4 years of no significant hardware releases/speed increases to
back this up, I have had it. No more rumors, no more stories of
whiz-kids with 20 MHz 65816's signing contracts with AE, nope. 

You people wanna real machine? Look at NeXT. The first NeXT cube was
like the //gs... lots of potential in the hardware with the graphics
and sound, but too damned slow and not configured well enough. But
where Apple neglected, NeXT pushed. Check out the new NeXTstations.
Bundled software, ready to use from the box, complete with monitor and
hard-drive storage, 8 megs, 25 MHz 68040, Ethernet, Mach-UNIX, price $3995 w/o
edutcational discount. 

And the damned thing will be able to switch flawlessly into the X
environment and back again. Run all the famous Gnu software under
X11R4. NeXT came through. Blows the Mac //fx out of the water; can't
even get an empty box from apple at that price. 'Nuff said. 


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