Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!mthvax!bsherman From: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 20 Mhz 65816 Message-ID: <1990Mar3.081950.8307@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 3 Mar 90 08:19:50 GMT References: <10393.infoapple.net@pro-generic> <6904@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1990Mar2.080606.28826@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <22579@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: U of Miami Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, Coral Gables, FL 33124 Lines: 22 In article <22579@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes: >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. From what I just heard today based upon the Developers Assn meeting with Apple this week, I doubt very much if Apple is looking for ANY speed processor chips for anything with the Apple II name on it... -- bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL: BSHERMAN >> Miami's Big Apple - 305-948-8000 - 24 hours - 300/1200 - PCP'able << >> Oldest Apple support board in Southeast. Now in it's ninth year. <<