[geeks] scsi notebook drives

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Sat Jun 8 10:00:39 CDT 2002


> You had to be there.  I remember when it was released, we were all 
> popping big, chubby ones.  Especially the science types, as a 40MHz 
> 68040 with FPU was amazingly fast in 1990 terms.  Most UNIX workstation 
> were still 68030 as well (and lower speed!), the SPARCstation was just 
> really starting to take off, this was damn near the speed of a SPARC 1 
> (10 MIPS .vs. 12.5), and ran Mac apps, of which there were a bunch.

The IIfx had a 40MHz 68030, not 68040.
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