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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple's New Direction
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.154213.20811@silvlis.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:42:13 GMT
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In article <13417@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <1990Sep6.200736.6012@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>
>In any case, when the Mac II and IIx hit the street, the faster 68020's
>were production parts.  They *could* have used it, but didn't.  I think 
>that was the point...

"Production parts" is a phrase which contains no information about
the availability. I'm sure a company could get several *hundred*
faster 68020's or 68030's at the same time Apple had to design in
a chip which was available in the multi-*thousands*.

Several companies made very nice profits off of their accelerator
boards by taking advantage of this situation.

jim

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