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- From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
- Subject: Re: Workstation from Apple, any time soon?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.054222.25245@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 05:42:22 GMT
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- + In article <macwhiz.720889008@gawain.cif.rochester.edu>
- (comp.sys.mac.hardware), macwhiz@cif.rochester.edu (Rob Levandowski) writes:
- + > In <1992Nov2.214841.2010@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> yuanj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- + >
- + > >Is Apple going to put out some workstations any time soon? I mean
- something
- + > >like the Silicon Graphics Indigo, or IBM 6000.
- + >
- + > >I really wish they do, and as soon as possible!
- + >
- + > According to the November BYTE, they already do... the BYTE Labs have
- + > decided that the Quadra 950 is a better personal workstation than either
- + > the Iris Indigo or the IBM RS/6000 Powerstation/350.
-
- *cough*cough* *Bogasity alert*
-
- I saw that comparison (we're an SGI/NeXT/Mac place), and the Indigo they
- used was severely hampered by 16mb of memory - lots of swapping. Be
- careful of what you read - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
-
- James
-