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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: All New? Wild rumors ...
Message-ID: <164@l5.uucp>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 20:25:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 20:25:39 1985
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Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco
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Summary: Somebody should be prototyping 68020 Mac's now.  Who?

In article <1150@cbdkc1.UUCP>, gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  ) writes:
> 	                     There is a possibility that Apple is working
> 	   on a new board for the current Mac that will run a 68010 and have
> 	   other features...  The supposed price of this
> 	   upgrade would be ~$500. (WARNING: this is only a wild rumor.)

The fun will really start to hit the fan when somebody (Beck-Tech?)
comes out with a 68020 board, with 68881 socket and PMMU, for the lowly
Mac.  Not that it would cost $500 (the chip itself is a good fraction
of $500) but it would make some real serious work possible, like Unix
or image processing.

PS:  It needs a total redesign to run at a good speed; the 16-bit bus
and the need to keep the clock speed compatible with the old one
really limits it if you just plug it into the 68000 socket with an
adapter.