Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!sk2f+ From: sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: A Serious Thought About the FUTURE <============================ Message-ID: Date: 4 Nov 88 00:55:56 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Attending college tends to make one think (at least it's supposed to). I was looking at my GS, waiting for GS/OS to boot, thinking about slow computers and upgrades and rumors. I thought about the prospect of Apple introducing a low cost K-12 Macintosh (the Golden Gate project). If this project pans out, where does it leave all of the Apple IIx users? And then I realized something: Apple is the only computer company that strongly markets computers with two different processors: the 68000 series, and the 6502 series. No other company does this - I.B.M. computers are all in the 8080 family. Atari and Commodore are also 68000. Where does this leave everyone? Apple has two distinct product lines, and THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM!!!!! I have nothing against the Mac. I just happened to start out with a IIe, and sold it and bought a IIGS because I thought it was the FUTURE!!!!! Now Apple wants us to buy a Mac, and run our IIx software on it??!!!! Consternation! Dismay!! Amazement!!!!!! The 6502 series is a considerably underdeveloped chip - the 65816 is only limited by the design Apple implemented in the GS. I don't know specifics (that's why I'm in college now). And then there's the 65832 - and something else (I forget what its number is) that is a complete computer on the whole chip. If anyone reads Open-Apple, you know what I'm talking about. I think its comendable that Apple has decided to consolidate their product line. This was the inevitable outcome (I think). I just get upset when I see the 6502 series going by the wayside. - the MAD scientist! sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu