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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Mac prices
Message-ID: <6769@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 13:25:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 13:25:28 1987
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In article <289@lakesys.UUCP> martin@lakesys.UUCP (Martin Wiedmeyer) writes:
>
>	Perhaps you might have overlooked the Magic Sac for the Atari ST. It
>runs Mac software 20% faster than on the Mac....:-) (the clock's a little
>faster....)

The Atari is probably not faster than a Mac SE (or a Mac II for that
matter).  In the older Mac models, the video circuitry stole cycles from the
CPU, when running out of RAM.  The Mac SE has different video, and is 20%
faster than a Mac Plus -- the same as the ST.  (The clock speeds of the
machines are essentially the same.)

Also, the Magic Sac (I believe) requires 64K ROMs.  This means you can't run
System 4.2, Multifinder, Hypercard, and any other program that requires the
later ROMs.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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