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- From: g-man@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Greg Sachs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Message-ID: <k3eoXB2w164w@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 07:55:07 EST
- References: <2B5B9010.16797@news.service.uci.edu>
- Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey
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- dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless) writes:
-
- > In article <C0yo9y.LMz@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> cyor@mobius09.math.uwater
- > >Hi!
- > >
- > >Just read a Mac magazine (MacWorld Feb 1993) and it mentions that
- > >Motorola is working on the 68060 for the Mac which is supposed to
- > >run faster than the first PowerPC.
- > >
- > >Anybody has more information?
- > >I guess we can get 68060 accelerator card for the Mac soon....
- >
- > And this leads me to something I've been wondering about. Sorry this
- > is so ignorant, but when you get one of these accelerator cards, what happens
- > does the card become the active CPU? Or are both used, or what? If you put
- > an 040 accelerator card into a IIci, for example, would it equal Quadra
- > performance?
- >
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- > | Dan Harkless | "The sore in my soul
- > | dan@cafws1.eng.uci.edu | The mark in my heart -> Front 242,
- > | dharkles@bonnie.ics.uci.edu | Her acid reign..." Tragedy >For You<
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- Uh, just a thought, But how much do you want to bet that ANYONE with the
- PowerPc boards has signed a VERY potent NDA?
- They won't be saying anything for a while(imho)
- g-man
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