Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <1991Feb4.043711.30720@cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 04:37:11 GMT References: <1991Jan27.174415.1236@NCoast.ORG> <1991Jan29.034832.2523@NCoast.ORG> <22981@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 21 Just an observation: $2495 * (1.05 ^ 6) = $3243 i.e. the NeXTStation slab was introduced at about the same price (accounting for inflation) as the Mac 128K was introduced at in 1984. I didn't mean to start a flame war. I was just wondering, now that it looks like I can't afford a NeXT by selling my Mac II (and I'm not positive I want to sell it anyway), what you could do to eliminate the CPU bottlenecks in a Mac II (i.e. how might a 3rd-party 68040 upgrade approach NeXT performance)? Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ "UGH! WAR! ... What is it GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" - 60's music lyrics --