Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8810250833.aa14174@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 25 Oct 88 13:21:16 GMT Article-I.D.: SMOKE.8810250833.aa14174 References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 >I am just a little worried. Stve Jobs seems to have proved where he was >at all this time with the NeXT machine. The thing is fabulous and >innovative, and at $6500 it blows the Mac // out of the water. It DOES have a 25 MHz 68030, BUT the disk drive has an average access time of 60 ms AND the CPU has to form all the images for the laser printer. According to PC Week, Write 2.0 is 25% faster on a 16 MHz Mac II. The NeXt machine will be marketed EXCLUSIVELY to the higher education market (perhaps) in the 2nd quarter of 1989 (it's vaporware until you can take one home). And software will have to be distributed on disks that cost $50 blank (adding a whole new meaning to "freeware"). By the time you actually can buy a NeXt computer, the Mac III (also 25 MHz) will be available. The best that can be said for the NeXt computer is that it will require Apple to set a less outrageous price on the Mac III than they otherwise might have. >Question.. does anyone believe Apple will try to beef up the Mac to compete >with NeXT, and thus, once again, scrap most avery project for the Apple // >including the //GS+? The next generation of Mac's has been under development for some time. A "crash program" won't be necessary. IIgs+ development (or lack of same) shouldn't be affected. If the rumored "Golden Gate" project is for real, you may not need a IIgs+ anyway (the next Vaporware column will be uploaded in a few days :-). [The Far Side shall return (I hope)] Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "Close enough for government work" - source unknown (naturally ;-)