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From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: SE/30 obsolescence
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.092734.154@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 14 Mar 91 21:18:10 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.171440.3104@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> 
> On a related note, do other people agree that the SE/30 model is about
> due for a facelift? Consider: it's the only currently-shipping
> Mac-II-class machine which doesn't have a 32-bit clean ROM.
> 
Indeed it is. Its also the only remaining machine of the IIcx/IIx/SEx family
which were effectively 68030's thrown into a memory architecture designed for
the 68020 - therefore no burst mode...

Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

AYNHO (vb.)                        
Of waiters, never to have a pen.