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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What if ? was:Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.033359.25798@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 03:33:59 GMT
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by ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright):
| In about six months we should see 68040-based accelerator
| boards for the Mac II.  About six months after that we
| should see cheap "brand X" 68040 boards.  Adding one of
| these to a IIsi will give you a machine that blows away
| the IIfx and is at least competitive with the NeXT for
| far less money.

  A IIsi with an 040 board would encounter numerous bottlenecks much
like 030 boards for SEs do today. The IIfx would be a better design to
start off with since it has more of the goodies necessary to keep a fast
CPU busy. Wouldn't it be great if there were an announcement of a IIpdq
that was in a IIc_ size box with 040, the IIfx's IOPs, built in video
like the IIci's, an 040 PDS (what would you put in it?) and two NuBus
slots? Lessee, wouldn't it be great if only cost ~$4000? And wouldn't
it be great if Apple brought a bunch of really great beer to the rollout?

Any relation to reality, fictional or not, is purely coincidental.
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