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From: stone@triton.unm.edu (Andrew Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mr Dentist: Just in time for Christmas
Keywords: Surgury,040's
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.023215.13822@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 02:32:15 GMT
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	That's right folks, the 040 upgrades are really real now.
You get a free tooth-cleaning device with every 040 Upgrade that looks like
its straight from Marathon Man to pull the SIMMS out of your old
motherboard.

	Unfortuneately for you people who have designed net-boot print
servers out of your old 030 boards, you have to return them.

The upgrade is simple and well-documented. The only slightly creative work
was trying to put the Optical drive dust filter on: you have to remove the
power supply to your hard disk to make way for the filter, and thread the
hard drive's cable underneath the opticals's cable where the cable clamps
connect on the partition between the motherboard and the drives.
	
	As for performance for developers, DataPhile, which use to make from
scratch in a little over an hour, now builds in 21 minutes. Links which use
to take 5 minutes now take 2.5 [disk intensive stuff doesn't show the Big
win];

	TextArt just screams, the window server is ultra peppy, and once
again my faith in "little Black" is renewed. In fact, I am even quite
willing to overlook the words "Sample" on the actual 040 chip, which has a
huge "cooling tower" epoxied to it, in what looks like an un-robotic
fashion.
Keywords: 
	andrew