Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!fadden From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 20 Mhz 65816 Summary: Chill out, dude Message-ID: <22579@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Mar 90 01:53:58 GMT References: <10393.infoapple.net@pro-generic> <6904@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1990Mar2.080606.28826@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 41 In article <1990Mar2.080606.28826@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes: |In article <6904@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: [snip] |>a few weeks ago, Applied Engineering [virtually certainly the "unnamed |>Texas company that makes peripherals for the Apple //"] has a 2 year |>sole-customer guarantee. | |The bastards!! The selfish bloody bastards!! | |What are they trying to do, force Apple to go to Bill Mensch for faster CPUs? | |I hope they realize that they may have just signed the death warrant for the |market they hope to monopolize. Let's not get too excited about a rumor shall we? I also heard about the guarantee, but we don't know for a fact that it's with AE, Zip Technologies, or what. We also don't know the terms of the contract. If Apple chooses to strangle itself with a slower processor, it won't matter what kind of chips are available. If Apple really wants the 20-25MHz chips, I'm sure they will be able to get them (it's amazing what a few well-placed phone calls can do). But lets face it. Utter blindness in upper Apple is hurting the Apple II line, the pre-Mac SE/30 line, and now their brain-damaged pricing schemes are about to obliterate any chance they have of really entering the workstation market. In a couple of years they may drop the Apple II just to keep afloat. Apple was heading down a similar path a few years back. About that time, Sculley gave Jobs the boot... Maybe it's time for history to repeat itself...? |Todd Whitesel |toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden "Pepsi leaves a bad aftertaste for some reason..."