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From: rogers@falcon.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 486/25 Power Platform for PS/2 70-A21
Keywords: Intel 80486, PS/2 70, AIX, cost
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Date: 12 Jul 89 18:37:33 GMT
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In article <8032@mtune.ATT.COM> rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran) writes:
<In article <991@hydra.gatech.EDU> mm42@prism.gatech.EDU 
                        (Mark A. Mitchell  GTRI/STL/MSD) writes:
<>In article <19000@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried III) writes:
<>>I have a little bit of marketing info on this product, and I have a
<>>few questions:
<>>
<>>What will it cost and when will it ship?
<>>
<>According to PC Week, $3995 and by the end of the year.
<>>If it delivers what they claim, might actually be a reason to buy a
<>>PS/2-70 (heaven forbid...;').

<As I understand it, this is a 486 replacement board for an existing PS/2-70.
<Between buying the initial PS/2 and this board, you're up to around $10-11K,
<right?  As it is safe to assume that Intel isn't restricting chip supply
<to IBM, what does this buy you over waiting for some probably-very-small
<period until Compaq/Zenith/ATT/.........  get their machines out, unless
<you already own the PS/2?  A perplexed mind wants to know....

I think Info week said that the PS/2-70A was $12K to begin with.  also
remember that that the 70A was recalled and delayed for months to fix
a small problem [It didn't work or something].

The 486 would like to read 64 bit words from memory if it could, and
It can read something like 16 Bytes in 4 or 5 clock cycles in burst mode.
with 32 bits read every 2 or 3 clocks like a 386 does, you can see that
this thing will really smoke once it gets a system built around it.

 Brynn Rogers    Honeywell S&RC        rogers@src.honeywell.com
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