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From: tsouth@pro-pac.cts.COM (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Gassee's Interview
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Date: 22 Jul 88 00:29:13 GMT
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In Article: <910@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> prw@meccsd (Paul R. Wenker) writes:

> The reason that Apple didn't make the GS faster was that at the time
> they couldn't get reliable 65816's at any speed higher than 2.8 mhz.

> Why is it that everybody is so quick to accuse Apple of a conspiracy?

> -Paul R. Wenker                 prw@meccsd
> -MECC, Technical Services

Sorry, Paul.  You may believe this, but I have too many friends, which I
consider in-the-know, that tell me just the opposite.  As a matter of fact,
there was a person that purchased one of the original //gs machines and
souped it up with his own hardware to run at 15 Mhz (I can't really tell
you what effective throughput on that would be).  Last I heard, he was
in a deal with Apple on the machine, but that's his business.  My point
is that, IMHO, there is no reason that the //gs should have come out on
the market with less than an 8 Mhz processor.  Apple waited a *long* time
just to get the first one out, and even if they did have this as a valid
reason, I think that current //gs sales prove that sales would not have
suffered with a later release date.  To me, that's just the difference in
the Apple ][ and Mac purchasers (not including the ones that used to own
Apple ]['s!).  The Apple ][ people are a seemingly fanatical lot, and our
purchasing power should have shown this to the company (Apple).  I think
the major gripe in a lot of people's minds is that the Apple ][ has paid
the bills for an extremely long time in the company, and there has really
been little to no upgrade in the system, considering current available
technology which can be mass-produced.  The only good thing that Apple
has done for the //gs (again IMHO) is create the Toolsets.

Todd South

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