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From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness")
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Subject: Re: Next and Sound
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Date: 23 Oct 88 03:05:27 GMT
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>First of all, BELIEVE IT.  Apple is committed to bigger and better
>Mac products which have been in development long before the next
>announcement.

That doesn't make me feel any better, Rick. The point of my message is that I am
afraid a renewed amphasis on the Mac to counter the NeXT machine will again
drive Apple // work into oblivion. The gs does not have enough power to support
the optimum use of the Ensoniq chip. I know because I have been working on a
music project for the last two years (much more intensive than DiversaTune). Two
MHz can't handle it. But the DOC is beautiful. It drives one of my synthesizers.
I keep coming back to the // because it is easy to develop on, has a great deal
of resources, and the DOC. Apple, however, has never demonstrated that they are
interested in this kind of ambition for the machine.

>Second, if you really believe that NeXT will be able to sell "the cube"
>at $6500 to everyone, then Jobs has you for a sucker.  When the machine
>finally is available for mass consumption (2nd quarter '89?), it will
>probably be around $10 grand.

I'll differ with you here. First of all, the machine is going to educational
institutions like this one. Second, at $6500, the machine barely covers the
requirement that it be affordable to the student. Any more, and you can forget
it. Besides, why do you think he made a deal with IBM? IBM makes memory! Cheap!
Apple has to go overseas to get marked up memory chips while Jobs sells a 8-meg
machine for $6500. It may bomb yet, but I'll find out if the NeXT is for real in
about 4 weeks.

And it looks like Jobs has learned a lot since Apple.  But that's moot. I want a
faster gs so I can make this program work. Apple gave the gs a voice, but didn't
give it any breath. I don't understand that.



Capt. Albatross
jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu

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