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From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Re: AT&T Micro Anouncement
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 08:05:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 08:05:31 1985
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> > > Mentioned are the:
> > > 	WE 32100	CPU	(about $400)
> > > 	WE 32101	MMU	(about $400)
> > > 	WE 32106	MAU	(1 Mwhet)
> > 
> > At the last ham radio fleamarket ("hamfest") I was at, I could buy new 68000's
> > for about $1.50 per megahertz (i.e, a 10 MHz part for $15)...
> 
> And you could probably have bought brand new Z80's for about two bits a
> megahertz (4MHz for a dollar).
> 
> PLEASE do not compare bananas and strawberries (I almost said apples
> and ... but lots of articles are posted comparing Apples to everything
> else :-).  The WE32100 Microprocessor line is a line of full 32-bit
> (32-bit addressing and 32-bit data paths and registers) machines with 
> a full complement of support chips.  Do not confuse these chips with
> "32 bit" chips that need extra registers to address more than 64K !!!
> 
> 					Rich Strebendt
> 					...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res

I trust you're not talking about the 68xxx family?  If you are, what are the
extra registers you're referring to?

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Regards,

George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd.
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