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VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the July 1989 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Forthcoming Macintosh Hardware.
Apple is expected to offer a 25 MHz Macintosh IIcx (perhaps
sporting a slightly different model name) with a built-in
8-bit color video adapter and a 030 Direct slot (see
February's column), mainly for third-party cache-RAM
products, as well as three NuBus slots in October (the date
depends on the release of the required operating System
6.0.4). The new machine will allow users to add less
expensive 1 by 9 memory modules and will only cost about
$1,500 more than a similarly equipped IIcx. Early next
year, the IIcx is likely to be superseded by a less
expensive 16 MHz version of the new machine. The next
generation of the Mac II line featuring six slots of a 20
MHz NuBus implementation (double the present speed) and a 33
MHz 68030 will debut next January. A low cost Mac using the
16 MHz 68000HC processor that will be in the long delayed
lapMac (finally coming in October?) is in the early stages
of development. - MacWeek 23 May and 6 June
After NeXT.
There may be a NeXT machine with a Motorola 68040 CPU
(merely a processor switch) in the interim, but the NeXT
generation on the drawing board will use up to four Motorola
88000 RISC chips and feature a 1-gigabyte Canon
magneto-optical disc with a 30 millisecond access time for
mass storage. - InfoWorld 5 June
Coming Soon?
A more "Mac-like" Word Perfect (2.0) featuring most of the
features of the MS-DOS version 5.0 is slated for year-end
release. FullWrite Professional remains on schedule for
year's end, but XyMac, based on XyWrite IV for MS-DOS which
is expected in the fall, may be a long time coming. SAS
Institute plans two Macintosh statistics products for late
summer named JMP (Professional for about $500 and "Start"
for less than $100). JMP features 3-D graphics, including
the ability to rotate the graphics, and is a completely new
program rather than a port of the well-known SAS statistics
package. Letraset is considering splitting Ready, Set, Go!
into two desktop publishing products (tentatively Ready,
Set, Go! Plus and Ready, Set, Go! Professional).
- InfoWorld 29 May and MacWeek 6 and 13 June