[geeks] was OSX --> worst of Apple

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Thu Feb 28 23:24:01 CST 2002


On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 09:04 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> I Never actually used anything before 6.0.4 except Apple II stuff. 
> (well I
> did, but I don't remember what the system was.)  LCIII was still a 
> 68LC040
> correct?... I think the concept of LC sucks.  It's sort of like the 
> Intel
> Celery or the AMD Paint Chip (Duron)

No, LC III was the full-on LC with a 68030 and a 32-bit data path.  Like 
a IIci in a teeny case.

You may be thinking of the Quadra 605, which was the same case, but an 
040 LC.  I have one upgraded to a full 040 running at 2x clock (50MHz 
external/100MHz internal.)  It can beat an 840AV...

-Pete



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