[rescue] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Jun 6 17:06:44 CDT 2005


Mon, 06 Jun 2005 @ 08:44 +0200, Joost van de Griek said:

> On 2005-06-06 7:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 
> > The Macintosh came with one speed, 16mHz, along with its later similar
> > systems the Atari ST (aka "Jackintosh") and the Amiga.
> 
> They're called MHz (megahertz), not mHz (millihertz), and the first Macs
> (128K, 512K, Plus), like the Amigas and Ataris, were 8 MHz machines.

Actually, they were 7.something MHz.

The Atari ST was 8MHz, and with Magic Sac ran MacOS and software faster
than a real Mac.


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