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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Yet Another Baseless Rumor
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Date: 30 Mar 89 02:55:04 GMT
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Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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In article <1377@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>I heard from a friend who knows people that the Mac IIxE is to be introduced
>later this year.  It will feature a 33Mhz 68030, all the goodies in the
>current new macs AND a RISC (88000 I would assume) QuickDraw processor.
>I think this machine would count as a NeXT killer as it will have the
>fastest (or at least very fast) graphics around.
>-- 

I heard a similar rumor (InfoWorld or MacWeek, I forget which) about the
graphics coprocessor-equipped machine.  Didn't say anything about a
33MHz 68030, though that might be nice; but it did say an AMD29000 (I
think-- at any rate, the processor in the Archimedes, I think)
RISC coprocessor, rather than a Motorola 88000.

Sorry about the vagueness, but this was a couple of weeks ago.  If someone
keeps old issues of these publications you could check the rumor columns
at the back and back me up on this.

-Antonio Romero    romero@confidence.princeton.edu