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From: ajq@j.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple and the 68030 (Any rumors to report?)
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Date: 22 Jan 88 16:39:56 GMT
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Reply-To: ajq@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (John O'Malley)
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In article <1374@csib.csi.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
>Quote from January 88 issue of Mini-Micro Systems
>
>   "For its part, Apple will not have a 68030 system in 1988, according to
>   CPU engineering director Steve Sakoman."
>
>So, don't hold your breath.

I read in InfoWorld some months ago that Apple was busy at work developing 
an "Oh Thirty" machine that they'd call the Macintosh II Plus, or Mac II+.

Does anyone have any rumors of any kind to report along these lines?  Apple?

No doubt we'll then see a Mac IIe, Mac IIc, and Mac IIGS ...  :-)


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