from the June 1, 1987 issue of MacWEEK

by John Markoff

Apple Computer Inc.’s next generation of computers may be based on a radically new microprocessor architecture that could improve performance dramatically over today’s Macintosh designs.

Such computers would be built around microprocessors combining elements of both Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) and multiprocessor design onto a single silicon chip. Apple’s advanced development team is now at work using its Cray XMP supercomputer to simulate the design of the new chips.

from the June 1, 1987 issue of MacWEEK

by Michael Goodwin

Why is Alan Boyd’s office like a hypertext document? Because it is hard to know where to look first.

There is a high-powered Mac II work-alike (a Levco Prodigy with 4 Mbytes of RAM) driving a big, high-resolution screen displaying a complicated menu of a tour of the National Art Gallery.

Next to that, a color TV monitor (displaying the Annunciation) is hooked to a videodisc player. Across the room there are several bottles of an obscure, single-malt Scotch whisky sitting on a high shelf next to a black motorcycle helmet. On the opposite wall there is a proof copy of the high-gloss, full-color ad for which the motorcycle helmet was bought; it shows a futuristic, helmeted rider, with a color computer display gleaming in his face-shield, over the headline: PREPARE TO ENTER HYPERTEXT.