Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More random Unix topics Message-ID: <10126@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Mar 90 22:31:43 GMT References: <9010009@hpfcso.HP.COM> <1231@swbatl.sbc.com> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article <1231@swbatl.sbc.com> ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml) writes: >In article <9010009@hpfcso.HP.COM> dlj@hpfcso.HP.COM (Dave Jobusch) writes: >>As for that matter, in the same issue that I saw the Motorola ad, I saw >>a blurb mentioning a new MacIntosh coming out soon. The "IIci" i think? >>Anyone have info about that? > The new Mac IIci is basically a Mac IIcx but with a 25Mhz 030 instead of the > 16Mhz 030. Otherwise, its about the same. Actually, the IIci is a significant improvement over the IIcx; you might call it the first Mac with an interesting hardware design. It has a respectible CPU to memory interface, and on-board video that shares time with the CPU, quite a bit like the way the Amiga's been doing it, at least at a low level. They even have two memory sets, A (think Chip) and B (think Fast), and just like on the Amiga, a full depth display can use most of the time on the A memory bus, dragging system performance to a halt. The rumors are that sometime in March or April Apple will have a new "Mac IIxi", which is supposed to be of the Mac II form factor rather than Mac IIc, which may go between 33MHz and 40MHz, depending on who you listen to. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough