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- From: jdavis@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Subject: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.203347.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
- References: <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:03:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu>, seth@physc1.byu.edu writes:
- > I have heard the rumors that one of the new up-coming machines Apple will soon
- > be releasingis a 20 MHz 040 machine, but WITHOUT the fpu on board. Is this
- > true? If it is then WOE unto us, my brethren! Apple must be going the way of
- > Intel faster and faster! Does this mean that Apple will soon sell you a
- > 68883 "math-coprocessor" a la Intel's 487, which in fact is a fully functional
- > 486 chip which effectively wrests control of the motherboard from the 486SX?
- > I really HATE (read in to this statement as much disgust as you can dream of)
- > companies that intentioanlly CRIPPLE their cpus in an attempt to please their
- > marketing a-holes. I know a company needs to make a profit to survive, and I
- > am not averse to paying a fair price for a product, but CRIPPLING a product
- > is just too much! That would be funny to see Motorola come up with a 68883
- > which was just a fully functional 040 to provide buyers of this machine with
- > a "math-coprocessor." I understand (sort of) them making a IIsi 20 MHz so that
- > it wouldn't hurt the IIci's sales, and I understand also why they made the LC
- > a 16-bit bus machine, so as to prove that it truly was a low-end mac. What I
- > just can't fathom is WHY they made the IIvx a 16-bit bus machine?!? I just
- > don't know. I have high hopes every time Apple releases new machines, and it
- > seems that they disappoint way too often. It's as if they are afraid that as
- > soon as they come out with a FAST machine for a low price they will never
- > sell a high-end machine again. Maybe they were too worried that if they made
- > the IIvx a full 32-bit bus machine nobody would buy Q-700s anymore. (I doubt
- > it) If anybody has figured those Apple marketing types out yet, please let me
- > know, as I just can't understand their logic. I personally would LOVE to buy
- > a machine that had maybe just one expansion slot (I have a IIsi, and apart
- > from an fpu and a cache have not used the slot for anything at all yet), a
- > small, trim, case, just 4 simm sockets, etc., just like the low-end machines
- > they have out now, but with a full 32-bit bus and maybe a 20 or 25 MHz 040,
- > but Apple's marketing types would NEVER let it happen.
-
- Fortunitly I think you are mistaken on both accounts: The 68040 has
- built-in FPU nd I am fairly sure the ][vx has a 32 bit bus because
- the Performa 600 has it, and the MacUser Review of the ][vx didn't
- metion anythng about it.
-
- Riff Raff
- The Crypto-Communist
-