Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!mkhaw From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac IIs Message-ID: <18999@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 03:07:48 EST Article-I.D.: teknowle.18999 Posted: Thu Nov 19 03:07:48 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 14:13:48 EST References: <768@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 23 > 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:" [ quote about 80386 Mac II ] > 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... Well, those writers aren't always techies. Besides, "68030" and "80386" have in common: - 5 digit length - a "6" on one end - the sequence "803" How's a poor harried hack supposed to keep this straight? If you pretend real hard, you might convince yourself that "sixty-eight-oh-thirty" and "eighty-three-eighty-six" sound almost the same. B-) Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa usenet: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|uw-beaver}!mkhaw%teknowledge-vaxc.arpa USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303