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From: gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 68040 MAc
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Date: 9 May 90 19:33:29 GMT
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In article <5360049@hpccc.HP.COM> dlw@hpccc.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
>Other sources claim there will be NO 040 based Macintosh but that
>Apple will leap directly to their new series of Motorola 88000 based
>machines. The real question then will be if these new machines will be
>Macs at all or a new product line that may or may not have a Mac
>emulation mode.

I would be willing to bet that it will be an 040.  It would be ridiculous
to jump straight into a new series of chips.  The 040 provides RISC performance
and gives code compatability.  An emulation of a 680x0 chip in the 88000 will
be ridiculously slow.  Commodore will be releasing their 040 stuff when
Motorola finally gets the 040 up to production.

>
>-David Williams
>"Yet another guy at HP with Macintoshes"

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