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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: board populace (NeXT and Mac IIx)
Message-ID: <560@uva.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 12:59:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: uva.560
References: <1354@unisoft.UUCP>
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Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <1354@unisoft.UUCP> paul@unisoft.UUCP (n) writes:
[stuff about the NeXT NuBus implementation etc. referring to BYTE article...]
>As I was with the Mac 2, I'm impressed with how 'empty' the board looks.

Have you seen the Mac IIx motherboard?  This is a subtle, but big (in my
mind) difference -- many chips have been replaced by one or two VLSI packs.
A fellow at Apple said that it was a 4-layer board instead of the Mac II
6-layer.

The 68030 may be more expensive, but my suspicion is that the IIx already
costs the same as a II to produce thanks to chip savings.  Now, how long will
we have to wait for these savings to come down to us?  Hah!

-cbb
>
>	"Where was George?" - Nudge, nudge say no more


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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS