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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- year, the IIcx is likely to be superseded by a less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
-