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Article #25759Re: Accelerators beat Mac II
From: David Fry
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 05:19
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 05:19
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In article <5398@watdragon.waterloo.edu> palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes: > >Why is it that some of the 020/881 add-on cards allow the SE to perform >faster than the Mac II? It seems to me that a machine built around these >two processors should be able to out-preform one which merely has the processors >added on as an afterthought. Is there some flaw in the Mac II architecture? The upgrade machines are generally (slightly) faster because they use high speed, more expensive, static RAM as opposed to dynamic RAM (slower but cheaper) in the Mac II. David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@harvma1.bitnet Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry Cambridge, MA 02138
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oddjob!hao!husc6!huma1!fry From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Accelerators beat Mac II Message-ID: <4140@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 29 Feb 88 05:19:50 GMT References: <5398@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) Distribution: comp Organization: Harvard Math Department Lines: 15