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- From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:54:51 GMT
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- timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) writes:
- >The guy with the SE can run pretty much the state of the art in
- >software, the best of which today is more than most people need.
-
- No.
-
- An SE doesn't have an 68020 (and it doesn't run Color Quickdraw).
- Which means that lots of applications won't run. And not just
- applications which don't make sense without color. For instance I have
- a copy of FontStudio which won't run on my SE.
-
- There are three kinds of Macs:
- 1. 68000 Macs (like the SE)
- 2. 68020 Macs without a PMMU (like the LC)
- 3. 68020 Macs with a PMMU, 68030 Macs and higher
-
- Apple is clearly trying to promote the third kind to be the
- `standard'. In fact, the only Macs still sold today by Apple are of
- the third kind.
-
- Macs of the first kind are certainly `obsolete'. Macs of the second
- kind are not obsolete _yet_. I don't know how long that will remain
- so.
-
- Freek
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