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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.064336.14278@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 4 Dec 90 06:43:36 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.205419.14100@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> <109755@convex.convex.com>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>In article <1990Nov30.205419.14100@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony) writes:

>>Good point.  I did forget about the IIci.  One of those little things that
>>you have to remember.

>Look at the Macintosh product line again.  Every Macintosh except for the 
>IIfx now has onboard video, and I suspect the fx's successor will also.
>And except for the LC, with its VRAM, all use the main RAM for this video.
>Is that clear enough?

  Isn't it strange how what is probably the better engineering design
(namely the separate video RAM in the LC eliminating memory bus contention
between the processor and the video circuitry) ends up in the lowest
performing Mac II...

  On-board video in the high end machines is just begging for separate
VRAM and an on-board graphics coprocessor... (maybe in the II/040??)

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