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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reason for Mac LC delay
Keywords: MC680what?!
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.182745.10708@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 18:27:45 GMT
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In article <46438@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes:
>In article <9185@latcs1.oz.au> jtc@latcs1.oz.au (John Catsoulis) writes:
>>Matthew Curfman writes:
>>>Someone on the net theororized that the delay of the Mac LC was due
>>>to the possible use of the 68025 instead of the 68020. Natta!
>>                            ^^^^^
>>
>
>The reason for the LC delay is that it started production later than the IIsi.

Also, they redesigned for 8-bit instead of 4-bit color, which meant (a)
time for redesign, which is prob. why the production started later,
and (b) time to get the 8-bit version through the FCC.
Right?

>[...] It DOES have FCC aproval.

Now.
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