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From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs
Message-ID: <975@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 89 16:12:16 GMT
References: <1378@trotter.usma.edu> <8400065@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <13027@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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>In article <8400065@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I think Apple has shot itself in the foot.
>...
>>Apple has made the same mistake as IBM!  And the blunder comes right
>>after they watched IBM falter!  People resist PS/2's & the
>>microchannel bus partly because they must throw away their AT/XT
>>cards.  Now people can resist the SE/030 for the same reason!

That's not the case at all, as any hardware engineer could tell you. The SE
uses a 16 bit data bus - a limit od the 68000 16/32 bit architecture. The
SE/30 is a true 32 bit machine. Putting a 16 bit slot in it would have done 2
things :

1. slowed down the data bus speed (they might as wekll had just introduced an
Apple 68030 card for the SE in this case), and 

2. MAJOR SYSTEM HEADACHES. I'm sure that the Apple people on the 'net would
agree to this fact...


Richard G. Brewer

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