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- From: mcgrant@rascals.stanford.edu (Michael C. Grant)
- Subject: Re: HP 48 card for Apple's Newton??
- In-Reply-To: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:10:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <MCGRANT.92Aug28002642@rascals.stanford.edu>
- Sender: usenet@EE.Stanford.EDU (Usenet)
- Organization: Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug23.212813.28334@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- <1992Aug26.093556.6972@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- <1992Aug27.211036.9227@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 00:26:42
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- In article <1992Aug27.211036.9227@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin) writes:
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- In article <1992Aug26.093556.6972@news.uni-stuttgart.de>,
- TOBIAS@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de () writes:
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- |>Ridiculus to use a mashine with the speed of approx. 300% of a
- |>40 MHz 68030 to run the 48 code on it.
- |>With that power it should be no problem (although there might be
- |>a memory problem) to write a something like maple.
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- 3 times as fast as a 40MHz 68030? ...and it runs on batteries?
- Um...call me skeptical, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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- Well, I HAD heard that it was faster than the Mac IIfx but I had not
- heard the 300% figure before.
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- Part of the power savings lies in their use of 3-volt logic.
-
- Mike
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