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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacSprint II  vs.   PMMU upgrade
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Date: 29 Mar 90 17:39:21 GMT
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> If I have a Mac II plain w/o a PMMU chip would I be better off
> spending the ~$150 for the PMMU chip or the ~$230 for MacSprint II?

(1) The PMMU will actually *slow down* your computer.  I believe the
    motorola chip has 1 more wait state than the apple chip.
(2) Your computer, as it is, runs all the latest vaporware today!
    Therefore, no PMMU upgrade is necessary in order to run vaporware
    (system 7.0).

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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