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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple's New Direction
Message-ID: <11234@claris.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 18:13:07 GMT
References: <6897.26e532e9@umiami.miami.edu> <kaveh.652575426@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <kaveh.652575426@s.ms.uky.edu> kaveh@ms.uky.edu (Kaveh Baharestan) writes:
>gross@umiami.miami.edu (JD144) writes:
>
>>dilemma: Completely redesign the Mac.
>
>>When Apple is designing its '040 Macs, they should strongly consider giving
>>it the capabilities that would allow it to overcome the processing bottlenecks
>>imposed by the hardware and OS.  The Mac could easily do everything that
>>is touted as being only capable on an Amiga if these bottlenecks are
>>removed.
>
>How about a multi-prossecor mac?

I agree.  I've always felt that it would be great to not only be able to
pick up more memory for my machine, but more CPU too.

I could head down to buy the latest greatest wonderApp, and since this would
be running concurrently with something of importance on my machine, I decide
that I need more CPU.  So I just pick up a 68050 plug in module and voila,
I've got five processors instead of four!  

It also has the advantange that I can completely dedicate at least one CPU
to the UI - guaranteed responsiveness.  And my BBS talking over ISDN lines
never knows the difference...


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