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From: c08_d042@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Stdnt 42)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Bye bye Billion
Message-ID: <841@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 89 18:41:38 GMT
References: <8901201318.AA05736@crash.cts.com> <6525@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: c08_d042@jhunix.UUCP (Stdnt 42)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <6525@ecsvax.UUCP> tamara@ecsvax.UUCP (Tamara Fischell) writes:
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>> SCSI card to conform to normal SCSI configurations, or at _least_
>> support the other major companies which are providing storage
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>  
>Please APPLE listen to this man.  Get us some BIGGG drives at
>affordable prices.  And do please find a way to speed things up!

Tell me about it!! Just about the only reason the Apple II line is
unable to do many things that Ibm and (especially) Mac & Amiga computers
can do is because of its VERY slow processing speed.  Plus, it does not
have complex 16- or 32-bit operations available on-chip.  So to compete
with a Mac, let's say, it needs an 8 to 12 MHz clock, the Mac's being
about 8 MHz.  It's the SLOW PROCESSOR SPEED THAT'S SUFFOCATING THE APPLE II!
Give us speed or give us death!

Chris Coleman
c08_d042@jhunix