Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!ammrk From: ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More random Unix topics Message-ID: <1251@swbatl.sbc.com> Date: 13 Mar 90 21:40:27 GMT References: <9010009@hpfcso.HP.COM> <1231@swbatl.sbc.com> <10126@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml) Organization: Southwestern Bell Tele. Co. - Advanced Technology Lab - St. Louis Lines: 40 In article <10126@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: >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. > Actually that announcment is supposed to be March 19. The name for this new machine is supposed to be the Mac II FX, and its supposed to be 40 MHZ. They will also annouce the A/UX 2.0 (concurrent Mac/Unix) that same day. This info was supplied to me during a demo this week at the St.Louis Apple headquarters, by our Apple/Mac representative. > > >-- >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 Catch ya all later, Mike... -- ============================================================================= Mike Kraml - Manager-Separations MECHANIZATION - SWBT - (The Techies) UUCP: {uunet, bellcore, texbell}...!swbatl!slims!ammrk =============================================================================