Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!pnet02!lbotez From: lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: applefest - Gassee Guffaw Message-ID: <20256@gryphon.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 17:40:39 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 39 Well, Applefest was great; much more upbeat than Boston was. Although there seemed to be a proliferation of Macintoshes around, I managed to ignore most of them and had a good time. Apparently the question and answer session after Jean Claude's opening remarks were one of the highlights of the Fest... Unfortunately, I wasn't there until Saturday, but what I heard was (I love rumors... heh heh) Someone got up and asked Jean Claude why the GS Rom 3 (for lack of a better name for this new machine) was not released with faster speed. After all, inquiring minds want to know! Gassee immediately entered Robot emulation, and started spouting his recorded message about how Apple has to acquire an enormous number of chips to supply all the new machines, and as this was not possible, they had to leave it at 2.8 mhz, etc. etc. etc. Well, apparently Bill Mensch from Western Design has had about enough of being blamed for Apple's foibles, and stood up in the audience and started shouting back at Jean Claude ... "you never return my phone calls!" "I have 100's of thousands of chips!" (I would assume he's referring to the 6 mhz variety.) Anyway, it went on for awhile; someone at Apple conveniently cut the mike so all you could see were these two arguing; eventually Bill Mensch was escorted back to his seat (most likely by a member or two of the Apple Thought Police)... and Jean Claude stomped off the scene with his hands up in the air. Ha ha ha! I thing Gassee was burnt out from all of Wednesday's activities at the "Power in Motion" Macathon. He had to assemble that "Paul Bunyan" Mac in front of everyone... :-) Lynda ps. By the way, I heard this GREAT rumor about another company that has developed a 65816 - compatible chip that runs at 20 mhz. Is this wild, or what? UUCP: {ames!elroy,}!gryphon!pnet02!lbotez INET: lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com