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From: buyse@convexe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS+ and next generation //s {ac
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Date: 4 Mar 88 20:44:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexe.UUCP!buyse    Mar  4 14:44:00 1988


No, I'm sorry, but you are wrong.  The quote to which I referred to in
the text you snipped was (paraphrased) "We try to have extremely short
design cycles-- less than a year" (attributed to Steven Jobs by a net
user).  I differed with that quotation in particular with regard to the
Macintosh II.  I believe that the Mac II took over a year from conception
to production.  Also, since the quote had to be over 2 years old, and
since much has changed at Apple Computer in that time, I felt that the
quote was no longer valid.

The quote that you mention by Jean Louis Gassee' (accent egout) has full
weight in reference to the IIGS.  He is now (I believe) a Vice President in
the structure of Apple Computer, Inc.  By the way, he also has an interesting
book out now called _The_Third_Apple_.  It is not a technical book, and
you can decide for yourselves exactly how you would like to characterize it.

I fully believe that the folks over at Apple are working on the successor
to the IIGS.  I even would go so far as to say that the next
*incremental* step in the IIGS line is already in or near prototype.  But
I do not yet believe in a Super II that uses the 65c832 being designed
for planned release.  However, we can always hope.