Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!uwvax!daffy!cat23.cs.wisc.edu!carter From: carter@cat23.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What processor does a Mac plus use? Message-ID: <1991May5.215449.14964@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 5 May 91 21:54:49 GMT References: <1991Apr25.211610.6013@omews63.intel.com> <8xxgzhf@rpi.edu> <1991Apr28.064941.9847@sarah.albany.edu> Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 33 In article <1991Apr28.064941.9847@sarah.albany.edu> derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man) writes: > >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. >-- >+ + "When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate + + >+ crime against humanity." -- Nadezhda Mandelstam + >+ _________________________ [Affix disclaimer here] ________________________ + >+ + + + Each one's life a novel no one else has read -- Peart + + + + Funny, when I opened mine up, I had a CONNECTION MACHINE in mine. --Gregory