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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: RISC6000 based machine
- In-Reply-To: dwargo@cs.ucsd.edu's message of 9 Sep 92 22:01:54 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:50:46 GMT
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- > dwargo@cs.ucsd.edu (Dave Wargo) writes:
-
- What is the scoop on the RISC6000 based machine that Apple is comming
- out with?
-
- It's a macintosh, and they named the CPU the 600 instead, since
- it's a re-work by Apple, IBM and Motorola.
-
- Is this pie in the sky or is it for real?
-
- Quite real. They will emulate a 680x0, but vital parts of the ROM
- will be in native code (DrawText comes to mind) so it'll be reasonably
- fast, depending on what you do. (Incidentally, SANE will probably be
- faster than emulating 68881 code :-)
-
- How soon should this machine be avaiable and how would it stack up
- to a Quadra 950?
-
- Well, the first machine is rumored to be medium-priced, and medium-fast,
- but will become faster as more parts of the Toolbox are re-written.
- Availability late '93 or early '94, to be followed by laptops and muscle
- machines later.
-
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