Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New computer? Message-ID: <2126@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 13 Oct 90 06:05:05 GMT Lines: 82 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <10931@hubcap.clemson.edu>, ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug) writes: >S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes: > >> I have a peer that has been telling me about a new system to be coming >>out soon that runs OS/9. It has/or is going to have a windowing type inter- >>face. It will have a 256 color display at some fairly high resolution out >>of a total palette of 16 million colors. > > You might be refering to the CD/I to probably be released 1991. It >will run OS/9, 256 colors at 384x240, real time video decompression, 1 600MG >cd player. It has CD quality sound, a 10MHZ 68000, and is made by Phillips(?). On the other hand, he may be referring to this.... (excerpted from a posting...) From: ee150000@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.m68k,comp.os.os9 Subject: New 68k micro Message-ID: <8732@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 04:57:00 GMT Reply-To: ee150000@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu () Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Hi, Here's some information on a new computer that is set to be introduced in August of this year: name: MM/1 (multimedia microcomputer) by Interactive Media Systems cpu : 16 mhz 68070 (Signetics 68000 code compatible w/ serial port) os : OS9/68000 (also called OSK) Unix-type operating system in graphics env. graphics processor: VSC (Signetics) produces the following graphics modes: 320 x 200 256 colors out of 16 million 640 x 210 16 colors out of 16 million 320 x 400 256 colors out of 16 million (interlaced) 640 x 420 256 colors out of 16 million (interlaced) 720 x 510 16 colors out of 16 million (interlaced) disk storage: 1.44 megabyte floppy memory: 1 (one) megabyte of ram on motherboard ports: 2 serial, parallel?, hi-res mouse input, joystick input, XT keyboard floppy disk, video out (analog VGA true multi-sync, RS CM-8, composite) bus: 32 bit bus (VME bus derivation) included software: OS9/68000 V2.3 C Compiler, Basic, graphics editor, text editor, file manager, print spooler options: memory/stereo/scsi board (expands MM/1 by nine megabytes, stereo sampling and production hardware, scsi interface) CD-ROM with scsi interface?, ethernet interface? price: ~$800 for base system, $349 for expansion board (when purchased at the same time as the base system, otherwise $399) distribution: retail, mail order phone: (for brochure) 1-800-866-9084, 48 contiguous states only. If anyone has seen this in action, could they post their reaction and any corrections to the information above? (end of included posting) -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+