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From: aoki@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Edwin Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac IIxi (and its cousins)
Keywords: new rumors Mac IIxi
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:57:18 GMT
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While we're on the subject of new machines...
I heard that the IIxi (fx, whatever) was going to have a 50MHz chip braked in
software to 33MHz.  Unfortunately, I can't find the source where I got this
information (The November issue of the Harvard Computer Review, with its
NewsBytes source from CompuServe/The Source).

But: From Harvard Computer Review/The Source October 1989..

"The machine has been provisionally called the IIcr series, and as reported,
 will center around a 33MHz 68030 microprocessor....

 ..the IIcr is being readied for a March 1990 roll-out, with volume shipment
 expected during teh second quarter.  The machine will be fast - very fast
 - thanks to the use of a 20MHz NuBus architecture and an 120 pin DMA
 expansion slot...

 Industry sources suggest that, by coupling a RAM-caching unit onto the 120-
 pin DMA bus, the IIcr could be anything up to four times faster than the
 25MHz 68030-based Mac II unveiled alongside the Mac laptop last month (the 
 IIci)..."

So perhpas more than one machine is in the works for a massive March rollout?

-Edwin Aoki
(husc8.harvard.edu)

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