[rescue] I hope this is not a Hoax

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jun 20 11:54:35 CDT 2003


On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:43 PM, robert brooke gravitt wrote:
>> Nothing per se... it just wasn't matched to the CPU.
>>
>> I'd expect to see a board designed around the processor not jerry 
>> rigged to work with it.
>>
>> an 88K based mac with 88K board arch or a 601 based mac with a 601 
>> optimized board arch.
>>
>
> I just realized you guys were talking about M68000 series CPUs. I was 
> thinking WTF is a 88K?

   I thought they were talking about the M88K processor family, 
Motorola's neat-but-failed RISC architecture.  I don't think Apple even 
ever considered using those in a machine though.

           -Dave

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