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From: jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee)
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Subject: Re: Turbo-Mac
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 22:45:09 EST
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> He said Apple will be coming out with a Turbo-Mac this Summer.
> It will contain up to 2MB ram, 68020 processor, color and
> an internal 960k double sided sony drive.

Apple can only sell machines based on chips they can get in quantity.
Somebody at Apple was saying that one reason the Mac didnt use a 10Mhz
or 12.5Mhz clock was they couldnt get fast enough chips in the quantity
they needed them. I somehow doubt that Apple is going to come out with
a 68020 machine unless they did what IBM did with the 286 and make the
chips themselves. As far as I know, Mototrola is sampling the 68020
right now. It will take them at least a year to get into volume production
of chips with any speed (maybe Apple plans to use a 4Mhz 68020?).
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