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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
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Subject: Re: Accelerators beat Mac II
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Date: 29 Feb 88 05:19:50 GMT
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In article <5398@watdragon.waterloo.edu> palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes:
>
>Why is it that some of the 020/881 add-on cards allow the SE to perform
>faster than the Mac II?  It seems to me that a machine built around these
>two processors should be able to out-preform one which merely has the processors
>added on as an afterthought.  Is there some flaw in the Mac II architecture?

The upgrade machines are generally (slightly) faster because
they use high speed, more expensive, static RAM as opposed to
dynamic RAM (slower but cheaper) in the Mac II.

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