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- From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Future of the II line (???)
- Message-ID: <fmlin.28me@terapin.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:44:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.103413.14250@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 32
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- It's pretty obvious Apple doesn't want to do any major R&D spending on the GS
- anymore; except the EtherTalk board. But still, some improvements would be
- REALLY nice, such as a final ROM upgrade, 2.8mhz bus...
-
- I would _really_ thank Apple if any of these two will happen. Especially if we
- can have 2.8mhz bus. Even if it will be the _final_ hardware product for the
- Apple, I wouldn't care. 2.8mhz bus will allow so much more... And if someone
- ever release a DSP board, it'll really be helped by it.
-
- One interesting thing to look at too, is that all the major chip companies
- wanted to kill 6502 like 10 years ago. There must've been a reason. WDC
- picked it up because he loved this chip, the same way the Apple is trying to
- kill the ][, but we still love it.
-
- There has been many changes since 1991. Apple has release a whole bunch of new
- Macs, and has cut prices greatly. Even the price of clones has dropped to rock
- bottoms... There is more competition in the clones area more than ever! Whole
- bunch of graphics chip makers, quite a few processors makers... All these
- competition makes technology fly! We're now seeing 386/40mhz SX, 386/486
- clones... local bus standards were set quickly, next generation bus already
- being design ( QuickRing, PCI ... ). There's no way Apple will look back at
- Apple IIs. It's got big competitions comeing from everywhere, SUN and NeXT are
- gonna make the PC wild with Solaris/NeXTstep ports... Silicon Graphics has
- enter the high-end micros, IBM/Compaq dropping prices.
-
- And we the POWER/PC and P5 comes out, we'll see like 5-10x the performance
- right now for about the same price. How does anyone think the Apple ][ is
- going to compete? Of course, schools don't really need all that power, Apple
- ][ still works great in school. I still use my GS for EVERYTHING, but I think
- I might just trade up next year.
-
- Honestly, I think Avatar will not be succesful. It's too late.
-