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From: CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz (Todd Hooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <1610@acad.cut.oz>
Date: 19 Dec 89 01:08:21 GMT
References: many, last was <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <18213@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <18213@netnews.upenn.edu>, meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) writes:
> In article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes:
> 
> lots of stuff deleted
>>
>>  It is a fact that NuBus, SCSI, AppleTalk, 68xxx chip is superior than 
>>EISA/MCA, ESDI, nothing standard or build in, 80xxx(not include 80486).
>>
> Why not include the 80486.  From what I here, the 68040 is plenty
> faster.  I don't remember the specifics - as a matter of fact I don't
> think the specs are out but word is it's faster.

Talking of the 68040, does anyone have any technical specs on hand for it?

What's the deal with Motorola? Are they actually shipping 68040 chips
yet? I remember Intel had beaten them with the 486 chip coming out before
the 68040, but obviously Intel must have rushed it through, what with the
486 chip having bugs in it.....

More specific to Macs, how do people see the 68040 fitting into new models
of Macintoshes? Will we see one next year?

(More idle speculation to follow........)

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