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From: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.0
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Date: 13 Oct 89 16:24:27 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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In article <9694@blia.BLI.COM> mike@blia.UUCP (Mike Ubell) writes:
>We have a bottom of the line 90x processor.  Our operations folks have
>been told by RTOC that in order to upgrade to Os 5.0 we cannot have an
>8Mhz processor and would need to upgrade to a 10Mhz processor. 
>Does anyone know why an operating system cares how fast the processor
>is running (or is the new OS such a dog that it needs the extra speed? :-)

The basic gist is correct - OSx 5.0 will not run on the 90x SP processor
set.  However, it's not that you need a fast (i.e., 10MHz) board set, but
that you have to upgrade to an AP processor.  Sounds like a garbled
communication problem to me.  The AP processor is 10MHz, though.  (I think.)

Regarding 5.0 being a dog - I don't think so, but it *is* probably a pig...
4.4 required a minimum of 8M of memory to run; I'm sure 5.0 will need at
least that much.
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