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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.225658.20211@verity.com>
Date: 20 Jan 91 22:56:58 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)

In article <1991Jan20.185644.1245@cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@cs (Don Gillies) writes:
>
>While people may be drooling over a 25Mhz 68040 chip, remember that
>the Mac II series has a 10Mhz Nubus anchor around its neck.  This
>means that your Mac IIxx (whatever) cannot be accelerated without
>spending gobs of money on a monster cache, and nomatter what, your
>screen updates will always display like molasses (unless you buy a
>video accelerator too).
>

Future versions of the Macintoshes will have ROM upgrades (1MB)
available that boost the NuBus speed up to the 20Mhz NuBus '90 speeds.
This according to MacWeek's report on the forthcoming '040 mac tower.

anders