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From: jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rumors about the Mac II +
Message-ID: <602@drexel.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 19:34:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: drexel.602
References: <5829@potomac.ads.com>
Organization: Drexel University, Phila., Pa.
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Summary: Probably new/faster CPU

In article <5829@potomac.ads.com>, jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
> 
> I hear rumors about a new Mac II called the Mac II plus.  Anyone know
> anything about this?
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> John T. Nelson			UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn



  I haven't heard/read anything specific to Mac II + rumors, but I would have
to think one difference would be a faster CPU (and math coprocessor).  68020's
are currently being produced at speeds up to 33 MHz, with 20 and 25 Mhz ones
pretty common (just look at the Sun 3/60 and 3/75's).  With the Mac II running
at only 16 Mhz (I think more exactly 15.78xxxx MHz), there is definitely some 
room for improvement.  I think Apple would probably want to upgrade the 
memory to at least two Mbytes of RAM, but the current ram chip shortage
may curtail this.  I would hope that they would go right to 4 Mbytes, and 
not fill up all the simm sockets with 256k chips.
   I would have to think that the 68030 would be the base of the future 
Mac III machine.  I wonder if it wasn't for the builtin MMU in the '030 
whether a 33 Mhz might have a better price/performance ratio than an '030
(at probably 16 MHz).

						Jeff White
						Drexel University - ECE Dept.
						rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff