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From: derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
Subject: Re: What processor does a Mac plus use?
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.064941.9847@sarah.albany.edu>
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References: <1991Apr25.211610.6013@omews63.intel.com> <8xxgzhf@rpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 06:49:41 GMT
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From lasteve@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Steven D Borrelli) come these immortal words:
>In article <1991Apr25.211610.6013@omews63.intel.com> davidn@omews80.UUCP (David Nedwek) writes:
[someone wanted to know:]
>>>>>	Is it a 030?  Or what?
[and someone answered:]
>>>>	Intel 80486
>>>
>>>	WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
>>>		(someone say 'April Fool,' PL-EEEEase!)
>>
>>Fear not, your leg was being pulled.
>>In fact, all Mac's have an Intel 432 under the hood.   :-)
>
>Really? An intel 432?  
>
>Dammit, I thought  they came with cray processors.


Well, my 128K Mac had several dozen N-Cube parallel processing units.
I guess Apple was shopping around.

						Derek L.
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