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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!kanefsky
- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: Re2: speed freak buys farm?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.220636.4778@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <725367136.8306423@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:06:36 GMT
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- In article <725367136.8306423@AppleLink.Apple.COM> UK0392@AppleLink.Apple.COM (EHN & DIJ Oakley,GB,IDV) writes:
- >Michael,
- >
- >>Have you considered using multiple Radius Rocket 33s instead of a farm of
- >>Quadra 950s?
- >
- >Funnily enough, I expect to test my first Rocket early in the New Year.
- >However, the recent discussion on compatibility problems has rather worried me,
- >and future upgrading potential is also of concern. But it is certainly
- >something that I shall be looking at very soon.
-
- DayStar has a 33mhz 68040 PowerCache coming out in the next few weeks (a
- 40mhz version is due out sometime in '93), that's guaranteed to be as
- compatible as the Quadra itself (their 68030 accelerators are guaranteed
- 100% compatible), and it can be swapped between many different Mac models
- with different adapters. You can upgrade to a faster model for just the
- difference in price at the time of the upgrade. (Compare that to Apple's
- IIci->Quadra 700 upgrade, which is only $300 less than a brand new Quadra
- 700). There's an optional 128K cache that should boost CPU-intensive
- tasks above Quadra 950 levels. A IIci with one of these should cost about
- as much as a Quadra 700 (far less than a 950) and the upgrade to a 40mhz
- 68030 will be relatively inexpensive.
-
- You might also wait for the new Mac models to be announced in January.
- Rumor has it that one of the new models will be a less-expandable version
- of the Quadra 950, to be called the Quadra 800.
-
- --
- Steve Kanefsky
-