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From: lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA
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Subject: Commodore Z8000 machine
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 12:37:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 12:37:02 1984
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The EE Times article was another of the confused variety.  Here is some
more accurate information on that machine:

1) It hasn't been shipped yet.
2) The standard display will probably be a 1K by 1K bitmap with a
   monochrome monitor.
3) The OS will be Coherent.  Since the base hardware is floppy-based, it'll
   have to be a somewhat stripped down version of Coherent, but there will
   be hard disk add-ons that will allow for running a full system.
   Obviously, a floppy-based system is going to be slower than a hard disk,
   but I've tried Coherent with floppies-only and it was reasonable.
   Hard disks are always nice to have (with any OS) of course.

4) The price is unclear at the moment.

--Lauren--