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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MegaMac -- 50 MHz, with caching ???
Message-ID: <31261@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 20:02:59 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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On page 19 or the current issue of MacWorld, there's an ad for a box which
is a Mac accelerator.  It plugs into a NuBus slot, and is said to give
you the performance of a 50 MHz 68030 with 64K cache.

I'm wondering how this thing operates.  Does it have it's own ROM's?
Does it download the ROM code from the Mac?  I just don't see how they
can avoid violating Apple's copyrights and patent on the ROM code, unless
Apple gave them a license.

BTW, I notice the ad claims "write-through" caching as a trademark.
I wonder what it says about the company, that they would make a stupid
claim like that.