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From: rms@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Roger M. Shimada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Gassee's Interview
Message-ID: <937@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 2 Aug 88 03:57:23 GMT
References: <8807221316.AA05915@crash.cts.com> <53@fizban.Fizban.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: rms@meccsd.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada)
Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp.
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In article <53@fizban.Fizban.MN.ORG> sds@fizban.Fizban.MN.ORG (Steven D. Splinter) writes:
>From article <8807221316.AA05915@crash.cts.com>,
>by tsouth@pro-pac.cts.COM (Todd South):
>>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?

Because Apple has botched the most of the Apple // line since after
the II Plus?  (Mentioning the Plus here probably opens some wounds
from Plus owners because Apple ignored them when the //e was
introduced.)

>> Sorry, Paul.  You may believe this, but I have too many friends, which I
>> consider in-the-know, that tell me just the opposite. [ mention of
>> person who made a 15 MHz GS ]
>	Sorry Todd, The reason was (as Paul has already pointed out) that
>	Western Digital couldn't deliver reliable 65816's in QUANTITY at
/*	That's Western Design Center, not Western Digital. */
>	anything faster than 2.8MHz.  [...]
>	, but there's
>	no big conspiracy in Apple.  If they could have brought it out at
>	7+ MHz, I'm sure they would have.

I'm pretty convinced that Apple was looking much more at the timeline
on the GS project than anything else.  They didn't take the time to
do it right.  They released a machine that should have had a faster
processor, a fixed video chip, and it should have been released
with Finder.  Having development software for the GS not running
on the GS would have helped too.

Apple hasn't had pride in the // family for some time.  They do
realize that the family has inertia, and as long as it does have
one strong market (education) you'll continue to see new members
of the // family.

Oh yeah...Paul's and Steve's source about the 65816 was 
probably Apple.

--
If my company knew what I'm writing, they'd just as well kill me.

Roger M. Shimada	{amdahl|hpda}!bungia!meccts!rms		 rms@mecc.mn.org