Macintosh upgrade path

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From: Carrick Talmadge
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1988 20:10

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Since nobody else has posted this yet, I figured some of you might
be interested in the following info.  My source is the trade magazine
"Macintosh Today", May 2, 1988 issue.

The following is the upgrade path for the Macintosh line, as described in
the above reference [their reference was the Spring Developers' Conference
'88].

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	Year		  CPU             Operating System
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        1984	    Mac 128K [H]	  Graphical Interface [H]
					  Appletalk [H]

	1985	    Mac 512KE [D]	  Hiearchial File System [D]

	1986	    Mac Plus [D,C]    	  Appleshare [C]

	1987	    Mac SE [C]	  	  Multifinder [C,E]
		    Mac II [E]	  	  Hypercard [C]
	
	1988	    ---------- 		  A/UX [E]
					  System 6.0 [E]
					      -Notification Manager
					  System 7.0 [E]
					      -24 bit Color Quickdraw
					      -Interapplication Communication

	1989	    68020 Laptop [C]  	  System 8.0 [S]
		    68030 [E,S]		      -True Multitasking
					      -Interprocess Communication
					      -Virtual Memory

	1990	    RISC [S]		  System ?.? [S]
					      -True Multiuser
					      -Voice
					      -Video

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Notes:

    The following are "target levels":
	[H] -> Home User
	[D] -> Desktop Publishing
	[C] -> Corporate
	[E] -> Engineering
	[S] -> Scientific

    "True Multitasking" refers to preemptive multitasking with 
	 memory protection.
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Carrick Talmadge			 clt@newton.physics.purdue.edu
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Subject: Macintosh upgrade path
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Date: 10 Jun 88 20:10:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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