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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple Announces High Performance Products
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Date: 20 Mar 90 22:24:18 GMT
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Another question: can anyone supply details of what is meant by speedup of
"up to 30 times over normal Macintosh drawing speeds" on the product
description of the Display Card 8.24 GC?

I have a vague recollection of claims that the Mac II's FPU gave performance
up to 100 times faster, which turned out to mean compared with a Mac Plus
running SANE - and  using the FPU directly on the Mac II, contrary to Apple's
guidelines.

Yet another question: is this $2000 display card faster than the $9000
computer announced at the same time? A 30MHz Am29000 is presumably
pretty quick.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu