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From: jerryk@pro-tcc.UUCP ("Jerry E. Kindall")
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Subject: Re: Rocket-Chip
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Date: 20 Oct 89 16:30:27 GMT
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I have a 10 Mhz Rocket Chip now, myself.  I ordered it Tuesday from Quality
Computers, and was told that it would be a couple of weeks because they were
out of stock.  It arrived yesterday (Thursday) morning.  I wonder if it's QC's
policy to overestimate shipping time?  (By the way, I live in Ohio, and QC's
in Michigan, so even though it was shipped UPS ground it still got here in two
days.)

I haven't done any benchmarking on it yet, but I can tell you that PublishIt!
2 is as fast as any Mac DTP program, ProTERM simply zooms through the
scrollbacak (I have a IIc with Z-RAM Ultra II giving me 260 or so scrollback),
and that text editor I wrote in Applesoft and compiled with the Beagle
Compiler is USABLE now!

I do have a glitch with ProTERM, but it's minor.  It's possible that I have a
slightly defective chip; we'll have to see.  Or it might just be that the
Rocket Chip doesn't like being directly under my IIc's keyboard...

I also managed to trash a 5.25" floppy during the installation of the RC
c0onfiguration program on my bootup disk.  I use Sean Nolan's SETUP.SYSTEM
program to run all the programs in a SETUPS subdirectory.  The RC config
program doesn't like SETUP.SYSTEM.  Basically, when the RC config program
bombed, it wiped track zero of my boot floppy.  I didn't have a backup so I
spent a couple of hours retrieving a few vital data files off it.

If you don't do anything fancy, like try to use SETUP.SYSTEM (which I
eventually got working; E-mail me for details), you will find the Rocket Chip
configuration software a vast improvement over the beta software they USED to
ship, a long time ago, with their 5 Mhz chips.
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