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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: New computer?
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Date: 14 Oct 90 02:34:53 GMT
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In article <323@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes:
%>fully multitasking/windowing wonder will retail about $1000 including the
%>monitor among other things.  It is supposedly running a 68070.  I have neither
%>heard nor seen anything about such a system, but he keeps insisting that it
%>will be released soon.  The last time I talked to him, he said that
%>it would be coming out next month.  It is supposed to come decked with 8 megs
%>and a hard disk (I think).
%
%I find myself wondering if this is a joke or just stupidity on your part and
%am forced to conclude that it must be a joke, since your other posts sounded
%a bit more reliable (either that or you stole someone else's .sig file).
%OS/9 does exist and I suppose would be possible. 256 color display is no big
%deal. 8 bit sound or 16 bit is no real problem. $1000 should perhaps have a
%zero or two tacked onto it, especially if it's running a 68070... :-)
%
%Are you sure that wasn't a 4 gigabyte re-writable optical drive? And gee, with
%all that hardware can you possible get by with only a mere miniscule 8 megs
%of RAM?
%
%BTW: I wouldn't mind selling you my 68060 box. (I'll sell it to ya for a
%mear $700 dollars and it's almost as fast...)

Don't be so quick to scoff. A 68070 is a special part, a 16MHZ 68000 with
dual on-chip USARTs and something like 2K of on-chip memory. It's only a
68000 at heart, but is still a very powerful base to build a computer
system from. (So the original posting is neither a joke, nor stupidity on
the author's part. What about yours? Posting from ignorance is such a
dangerous thing....)
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
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	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
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