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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Accelerators beat Mac II
Message-ID: <8305@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 88 18:58:18 GMT
References: <5398@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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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?

Not at all.  It's the design of the NuBus architecture which allows the
flexibility of expansion.  There are in fact 020/881 boards that run
faster than 16 MHz so they will ignore the 68000 processor.  The Mac II,
similarly, will be able to be upgraded to 030/882 boards and will
subsequently be able to run faster as well.

Ken

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