Mac IIfx

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Apr 22 20:59:09 2001

On April 22, jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
> Even '030/'8881 at blistering 40Mhz, full '040-25 trounces it due to
> both built in cache w/ low losses and efficient CPU and FPU built in.
> But that IIfx was out way earlier than '040 did. Another example,

  ...except for the fact that the IIfx has about a half dozen other
processors in there doing all sorts of other stuff to offload that
'030. It was the first Mac, for example, that could go about its
business formatting a floppy disk and give its (then single-tasking)
OS back to the user because the format was running on a separate
processor.

         -Dave McGuire
Received on Sun Apr 22 2001 - 20:59:09 BST