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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC SE w/68030???
Message-ID: <6121@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 28 Dec 88 21:15:30 GMT
References: <6101@columbia.edu> <1443@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <6101@columbia.edu>, dr@douglass.columbia.edu David Robinowitz says:
> 
> 	I have noticed several references to a Mac SE with 68030 coming
> out soon.   Any info?  Thanks in advance!

In article <1443@cooper.cooper.EDU> joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi)
writes:
>	And by any chance would this new Mac SE support color???

References may be found in MacWeek's invaluable but unreliable "Mac the
Knife" column.  It seems likely that the new SE will support Color
QuickDraw.  CQD was written in 68020 assembler, which is the main
reason it wasn't present on the original SE.  (If you're not a tech
type, the SE has a 68000 processor which can't process all software
instructions that run on the Mac II's 68020 processor.)  There should
be no obstacle to moving the Mac II ROM OS directly onto the SE, with
perhaps a few small hacks for timing loops and interrupt/exception
handlers.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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