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From: nmm@jenny.UUCP (Nick Maclaren)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Large store (100 MB) 68K machines
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 22:57:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 22:57:28 1985
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We are interested in a machine to be used as a cheaper (and possibly
better) alternative to an array processor for the finite-element
number-crunchers etc.  The sort of thing would have the following
properties:

    68020 processor, with any extra floating-point stuff
    32 MB of store, upgradeable with present chips to at least 128 MB
    A standard terminal interface (RS232 or X-25)
    Some suitable hardware for medium-speed (48 Kb) file transfer 

Does anyone know if such a thing is marketed commercially?  Naturally,
we don't expect it to be very cheap.

Thank you for any information.

Nick Maclaren
University of Cambridge
nmm%cl.cam.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa