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- From: srinivas@csa2.lbl.gov (SRINIVAS KRISHNAGOPAL)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple Press Release - Announcing Performa line of computers
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:20:52 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <CMM.0.90.2.716494142.werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu> <D88-JWA.92Sep15203056@dront.nada.kth.se>
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- In article <D88-JWA.92Sep15203056@dront.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes...
- >> sloderb@iris1.sb.fsu.edu (Mike Sloderbeck) writes:
- >
- > >>Also, can anyone speculate on whether the 600 could run A/UX?
- > >No.
- >
- > Is this "No, nobody can speculate." or "No, A/UX won't run." :)
- >
- >
- >The Performas don't have FPUs -> can't run A/UX. A few drivers would
- >probably also have to be re-written, and since the Performas aren't
- >slanted towards government, that'll probably never happen. Just look
- >at the PowerBook 170; A measly screen driver is all that's needed,
- >and wouldn't it have been cool to have an X11/System7/UNIX laptop?
- >But still no go :-(
- >
-
- But, like in the IIsi, an FPU could probably added. I don't know
- about the driver. Can the IIsi run A/UX?
-
- Any thoughts about the availability of third-party FPU/cache cards
- for the Performa 600s? (Soon? Never?)
-
- On a side note, the price of the IIci seems to be dropping. At
- ComputerWare, Berkeley, the 5/80 is down to $2349 since yesterday. The
- U.C. Berkeley educational price remains at $2956!
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- -- Srinivas Krishnagopal (srinivas@lbl.bitnet)
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