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From: sidlives@mck-csc.UUCP (David Rho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac IIfx Quesitons
Message-ID: <427@mck-csc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 05:35:40 GMT
References: <8799@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: sidlives@athena.mit.edu (David Rho)
Organization: McKinsey & Company, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <8799@chaph.usc.edu> talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) writes:
>In a recent ad in the Wall Street Journal (March 19, 1990) a few sentences in
>Apple's ad for the IIfx caught my eye and generated a few questions.
> 
>The ad says, "It is...the first personal computer to have two additional
>processors--with the power of two additional personal computers--to manage the
>flow of information inside.  So that that screaming 68030 chip isn't slowed
>down by the more mundane tasks of computer housekeeping."
>
>Question: Exactly what type of processors are these and what are they doing?
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>
>Adam Talcott
>talcott@nunki.usc.edu

I think that the two processors that they use to help with I/O
stuff are 6502s!!!  I guess Apple must have been stuck with a
lot of those or (more likely) they can get them for real cheap.


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