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From: lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: applefest - Gassee Guffaw
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Date: 26 Sep 89 17:40:39 GMT
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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?  

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