Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: New Mac IIs Message-ID: <768@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 15:53:48 EST Article-I.D.: rocky.768 Posted: Wed Nov 18 15:53:48 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 12:40:04 EST Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 14 Keywords: 80386? ------ Well, seems like Apple has decided to listen to those Byte benchmarks after all... taken right out of page 65 of number 5.13 off Bay Area Computer Currents, in an article entitled "As Apple Readies New Macintosh, Developers Offer Upgrades:" `Apple is developing an upgraded Macintosh II based on Motorola's top-of-the-line 80386 microprocessor... will make the II "four times faster." ... boards won't come cheap --- $6000 is the quoted price.' The funny thing is, the article mentions the 80386 FOUR times. Both the author and the editor must've been sleeping on the job that day... Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu