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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: reason to buy Apollos, how about older used ones?
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Date: 17 Jul 90 15:40:04 GMT
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The DN660 is a bit-slice processor made to emulate a 68020 CPU (is
made of custom chips with its own floating point unit). The DN660
was introduced back when the 68010 was the fastest chip Motorola
had. The machine is roughly the speed of a DN3000 (12 Mhz 68020) for
integer math and single precision floating point, but roughly half
the speed of the DN3000 for double precision floating point. Apollo's
hardware support is extremely expensive for these machines, as they
are almost 5 years old. A service contract would run on the order or
$500/month. As for price ... not more than a couple of hundred dollars.
We recently tossed some of these machines out in the trash because
we could not get any Apollo reseller to take them at any price.


 -- David Krowitz

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