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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 16 bit version of 68030 / 68040
Message-ID: <11163@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 4 May 90 20:32:30 GMT
References: <375@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <375@van-bc.UUCP> hui@wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>
>Over in comp.sys.m68k there is talk of a 16 bit version of the 68030 or 68040 
>processor in the works. It would be plug compatible with a 68000.
>For all of us still hanging on to Mac Pluses or SE's, perhaps Apple now
>will offer the ultimate upgrade of them all: simply plug in a new CPU
>chip and you are guaranteed object code compatibility for system 7 onwards.

I read a magazine article today (don't remember which; must have been one
of MIS Week, LAN Times, Digital Review, MacWeek, Macintosh News, MacUser,
MacWorld, Byte, PC Week, ComputerWorld, or some other magazine that I forgot)
about this new 68xxx processor.

They said that it would be a scaled-down 16-bit version of the 68040
(since the 040 was designed on computer, this would be easier than going
with any other chip design).  They believed it would be called the 68025.
It is supposed to be released late in the year (with a simultaneous
announcement by a major computer manufacturer -- wanna guess who that
might be?).

This chip is supposed to compete with the 386sx from Intel.  From the
report I read, this new chip will include MMU functions that would go
just swell with System 7.0...

Well, that's it for me.  After two years as student rep, this is my
last day.  (I'm sure I'll be back on the net sometime soon, though.
It's addicting.)  So people can stop called me "biased" :-)

Later,

-Michael

p.s.  Graduation!  Finally...

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