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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 7 May 91 23:55:29 GMT
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In article <1991May6.193235.27330@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:

>Okay, now *everybody* sing:  WHY IS THIS?  'Cause the '040 boards for ANY
>Mac will require all that glue, cache, and ram business on the board.
>It's CPU slot isn't the full 40-whatever pins it takes to interface an '040.

I don't know how many pins the '040 will require, but my SE/30 has a 120 pin
Direct Slot.  The IIsi has basically the same slot (or at the very least can
get adapted to it.)

The reason the Mac '040 upgrades will cost about $2k is that people will be
willing to pay that much for them.  030 upgrades for the 68000 models are in 
the $500 range now.  "Whatever the market will bear."

>Dave Hopper      |     /// Anthro Creep  | Academic Info Resources, Stanford
>                 |__  ///     .   .      | Macincrap/UNIX Consultant
                                            ^^^^^^^^^

It is much easier to bash a computer when you just make it up as you go
along.  The advice of a consultant who can't be bothered to look up or remember
the facts is worth a fart in the wind - maybe.