#: 19580 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    12-Jan-94  13:12:26
Sb: #19574-#CDI Computer News
Fm: Graham Trott 100115,1075
To: Eric Crichlow 71051,3516 (X)

Eric --

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I thought it was said that the Motorola 68340 was going to be in the next
series of CDI players
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Although Philips have no (public) plans for upgrading from the 68070, others
have already taken a lead.  The French company I2M are just about to launch
Nubus (for Mac) and ISA (PC) cards that comprise a complete CD-i player, based
on a 68340 CPU, so it runs a good deal faster than the Philips one.  This has
caused a deal of debate as to whether the performance increase is a Good Thing
since optimising for this unni_<<