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Subject: Re: The LC vs. IIsi (CPUs)
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.091308.506@otago.ac.nz>
From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:13:07 NZDT
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In article <1991Jun9.203402.15701@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
> Actually, I wonder about the economics of the LC design.  In today's
> world of single-board CPUs, and falling memory prices, I can't see how
> a 16-bit bus saves much money....
> How much money would it have cost
> apple to provide two extra simm sockets and more wires on the PC board
> of the LC?  Less than $40?

It may be the "more wires" that are the problem, making the board more
expensive. I find this difficult to believe, though. They manage to get 32 bits
to the ROMs, so why not to the RAM? I fear we are seeing the dead hand of
marketing in action, i.e this is a low cost machine ergo it must have lower
performance...

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

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