Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!l5!gnu 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 Article-I.D.: l5.164 Posted: Fri Sep 27 20:25:39 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 00:37:19 EDT References: <1150@cbdkc1.UUCP> Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco Lines: 16 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.