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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Does anyone know about the 25MHz MAC IIcx that may be announced this summer
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Date: 27 May 89 17:49:43 GMT
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In article <24863@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@haida.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
>In article <6974@bunny.GTE.COM> rw02@GTE.COM (Robert Weihmayer) writes:
>>MAC week had an article on new product announcements. It said
>>a new 25MHz IIcx unit may come out this summer at about the
>>same price as the current IIcx model.
>>Does anyone know more about this?
>
>All I know is that there are rumors of an AMD 29000 RISC chip being
>used as a graphics coprocessor, DMA (direct memory access) technology
>being used for SCSI speedup, and that the whole logic board was
>redesigned to take advantage of the 25 MHz 68030.

Just to keep rumors straight -- I think you're confusing the 25MHz 030
machine that's reported to be coming out this fall (main features: 25MHz
68030 and it's own 8-bit video card (built-in?)), which seems like a sure
thing, and the so-called "NeXT-killer", that has tons of on-board hardware
features like DMA and the RISC chip for QuickDraw.  No one's been hinting
about when that might be out; if it turns out to be reality, I'd be
surprised to see it before the tail-end of 1990.  Maybe when 8.0 gets out...

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