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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Z machine et al
Message-ID: <745@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:50:45 GMT
References: <19.278EA89B@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <19.278EA89B@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
> 
>Actually in the US (or at least in Canada) the 8032 and the SuperPET
>were two completely different items.  The SuperPET was actually the
>PET 9000 (or SP9000, I think).  It had a 6809 in addition to the 6502,
>96K of RAM, and a host of Waterloo languages (interpreted PASCAL!).

Ah, then I know: It was named "MMF 9000" (at least here). And you
know what MMF stood for? "Micro MainFrame"!!! (Maybe because of these
Waterloo languages, they were all awfully slow, I think with an 6809 
you could have managed far better performance, look e.g. at OS9 for
this processor!)

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