Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!ti-csl!m2!holland From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Rumors about the Macintosh IIci Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 89 18:41:11 GMT References: <10213@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 30 In-reply-to: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU's message of 1 Sep 89 15:31:36 GMT In article <10213@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: 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. I don't think it's a rumor. I thought Apple officially announced that it would present this along with the laptop on September 20 (21?) at Universal Studios. Sounds wild, maybe I did make it up :) 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. I think there are rumors that it will have a graphics co-processor to free the cpu. Is this what you mean by multi-processing? -Fred ______________________________________________________________________________ | Fred Hollander | | | Computer Science Center | "Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ah what a day!" | | Texas Instruments, Inc. | -- Joker | | Internet: hollander@ti.com | | | Telnet: 214/995-0696 | The above statements are my own and not | | AppleLink: D1392 | representative of Texas Instruments. | ______________________________________________________________________________