Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 12 MHz 65816 Message-ID: <8806110559.AA18929@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 11 Jun 88 06:43:44 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 47 >In article 88052716140BUFS John Stephen III writes: > >> - There is no such thing as a 12MHZ 65816 so I don't know why (or even HOW) >>Apple is buying them. > >>Vaporware,January 88,by murphy Sewall,from the January 1988 APPLE PULP: >>Accelerated IIgs. > > Western Design Center of Mesa,Arizona reports that Apple > has been buying quantities of the 12-MHz version of the > 65816 (so far the only machine it's used in is the IIgs). > Could the rumored IIgs accelerator board (see last January's > Vaporware column) finally be on the way? -Incider January That's why its called "Vaporware" folks. I got that 12MHz speed within weeks of the IIgs release from one of the original IIgs beta-testers. Who knows WHAT speeds Western Design PLANNED to make at that time? Western certainly has BIG ideas - see "The future of the Apple II" by Tom Weishaar on the front page of the June '88 Open Apple *WOW!* If you don't subscribe you'll get a pithy summary that won't do Tom justice in next month's column. I had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer and beta tester last night. He says, yup Apple IS buying the faster 65816s, BUT how well do you swim? It seems that ALL (that's 100% folks) of Apple's current production is scheduled to be shipped to FRANCE! competitive considerations "across the pond" are said to differ from here, and a faster IIgs is deemed "necessary" in the French market (implication: us American wimps will continue to buy even without improvments). Another interesting assertion: Apple apparently misestimated the continuing demand for the //e (mainly from school systems who don't find the IIgs premium relative to educational software worth it). It looks like there will be NO MORE new //e's in inventory after July in spite of Apple's promise to educators to continue marketing the machine into the next school year. Restarting //e production would be prohivitively expensive. Gee, some schools may be "forced" to accept IIgs's at //e prices (?). --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut