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Re: Yet Another Baseless Rumor

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From: billkatt
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 02:51
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In article <1377@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>I heard from a friend who knows people that the Mac IIxE is to be introduced
>later this year.  It will feature a 33Mhz 68030, all the goodies in the
>current new macs AND a RISC (88000 I would assume) QuickDraw processor.
>I think this machine would count as a NeXT killer as it will have the
>fastest (or at least very fast) graphics around.

The Quickdraw processor is an AMD 27000, not an 88000, an 88000 costs MUCH
too much to use as a co-processor.

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