Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!berner!lethe!geac!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!tank!shamash!nis!sialis!orbit!pnet51!shawn From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: //x and Apple Roms Message-ID: <1050@orbit.UUCP> Date: 1 May 89 21:25:10 GMT Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 16 sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes: > Unless I am severly off course, the //x project that existed in late '83-84 >(rumor) never became the //gs. The actual designs were quite different, >physically the approaches could of been quite similar, but the idealogical >goal with the machine was very different. The //gs was (obviously) designed to >be a color mac. The //x has almost become the //c+, where the //x was a //e >with 4mhz clock, memory to 1 meg internally, 3.5 drives standard, and an >imporved text mode. The //gs is quite different. "Is" and "was". You sound very sure of yourself! Did you have access to an "official" leak when the rest of us were hearing rumors? If this is the case, I'd be willing to hear (e-mail, of course) what you think is going on these days... :-) UUCP: {uunet!rosevax, amdahl!bungia, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!shawn INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com