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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Rumors about the Macintosh IIci
Message-ID: <10213@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 89 15:31:36 GMT
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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All right, I just heard an interesting tidbit of news through the grapevine,
so let me have my moment in the limelight as the person who started the
Rampant Rumors about a Terrific New Computer That Doesn't Even Exist Yet.

My boss told me (so it's gotta be true!) that the Macintosh IIci is due to
be unveiled this Fall.  It is cosmetically identical to a IIcx, but chugs
along at 25 megaHertz.  It was unveiled at a computer exposition (what better
place to expose a computer?) recently.

Let me attach this with another rumor and suggest that this might be Apple's
first machine with multiprocessing capability.  Not multi*tasking*, mind you:
multiprocessing means really physically running two programs at once, like the
Commodore Amiga has been doing for years.

The Macintosh IIci supposedly doesn't need a video card, as the screen memory
will exist entirely in the machine's RAM.

Comments, criticisms, or other assorted rumors, people?  Anyone?  Anyone?

     << Brian >>

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