Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!shelby!neon!torrie
From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What if ? was:Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.015411.23301@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 90 01:54:11 GMT
References: <108420@convex.convex.com> <1990Nov15.033359.25798@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Lines: 19

minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>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

>  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
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  A 68050 card of course!
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
Jim Bolger - a National landslide of incompetence