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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Speed of Mac IIx
Message-ID: <4188@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 88 16:41:59 GMT
References: <14550@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <14795@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <17936@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <17936@apple.Apple.COM> han@apple.com.UUCP (Byron Han, Architect) writes:
>In article <14795@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-2ce@web-4a.berkeley.edu (Mike Kao) writes:
>>I believe the processor speed of the 68030 is 25 Mhz. 
>
>The Macintosh IIx processor is a 16 MHz 68030.
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>Byron Han, Communications Architect                   "Just say NO to MS-DOS."

Byron, do you know if they have removed the wait-states from the
memory accesses or done anything to speed up the NUbus? Both of these
are fairly serious bottlenecks on the current design.  Also, any sign
of a DMA chip, or do they still not want to do multitasking?

Jon