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From: ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Aviion and others?
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.024008.16021@wolves.uucp>
Date: 27 Sep 90 02:40:08 GMT
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In <12812@encore.Encore.COM> jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) writes:
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>In article <TOM.90Sep26133613@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> 
>tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
>
>> [list of 88K system vendors, including Data General, Motorola, Harris,
>>  Textronix and Opus]
:
>I've used an Opus "Personal Mainframe 8000" and it's not a bad Unix box.
>It's surprisingly fast, given that it's a coprocessor board in a stock
>PC/AT clone. I can't (currently) say anything about any other 88K systems.

Over at Duke Center for Demographic Studies, we use a whole passel
(well, 5 of 'em) of Opus PM-4xx (88000 based) co-processors in a variety
of AT-class '286 and '386 machines.  One has 2GB of SCSI disk with the
new Opus drivers that let the 88000 talk directly to the scsi (bypass
the DOS io system!)  They are sys5 boxes with decent networking.  I'll
be glad to answer any other questions about them.

Disclaimer: I don't speak for Duke or Opus, just me, and I happen to
like the things (we do beta test a bit for opus ;-)
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