[rescue] I hope this is not a Hoax

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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.
>

NeXT actually had some built, ironically enough.