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From: knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: MM1
Keywords: 68070
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.155855.28392@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 15:58:55 GMT
References: <24462@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <24462@well.sf.ca.us>, jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
> 	just bouncing into this newsgroup for the first time. what's
> the good word on the MM1, that Philips/Signetics 68070-based OS9
> engine that I have heard such nice things about?

Glad you asked.  Just returned from the Chicago RainbowFest, where
I saw the latest MM/1 machines and talked with the IMS people.

It's in final form and been thru a pilot production run, so about a
dozen developers and customers took machines home (in kit form to
beat the FCC certification which is still tied up in paperwork).
"Kit" means the completely assembled pair of circuits boards, disk
drive, all software, and optional case and PS.

More kits will be shipped as boards are assembled and tested.
The official case is a compact PC box.  Fully assembled units will
start shipping the day the FCC gets off their butts -- then the Kit
offer will no longer be available.  If you want one now, by all
means get in on the kit deal while you can.

It now comes with OSK 2.4 and the complete development software set
(C, Make, Umacs), NFM, PC-file-transfer, and OddJob (a combination
script Shell and AWK-like interpreter).  And some other stuff.
Kevin Darling's Windowing system is now running pretty much
complete and is included.

Besides the usual animation and sound demos, I saw it running
preliminary versions of the drawing program (also bundled) and the
UltiMusE MIDI music score editor/player (not included, and not
ready for release yet).

Both circuit boards are slightly bigger than an old IBM punch card,
really compact.  All CMOS, so only the disk drives need cooling.
Palette controller is now standard, 8 bits each RGB for 16 M colors.
DMA stereo sound is working.  So is MIDI port hardware in prototype
form.

For more info and constant discussions, get on the Coco Mailing List
at pucc.princeton.edu.
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