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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
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Subject: Re: Is Apple Dumping Mac IIs?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 23:16:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu's message of 13 Oct 89 22:34:20 GMT

In article <1989Oct13.223420.17194@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:
>[...] for all practical
>purposes, putting a 25mh 030 on a Nubus card would not be a very
>good solution.

  How about putting a high-speed processor with a fairly large cache
on a board?  This is basically what Applied Engineering does with
their accelerator boards on the Apple ][ series, and they get quite a
lot of speedup....
  Is Apple avoiding this to leave the third-party market open?
   
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