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From: A105@UWOCC1.BITNET (Brent Sterner)
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Subject: Rumours (lets generate some smoke!)
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 14:25:00 EST
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   Just some thoughts.  We're a TOPS-10 site with a new 8600 (October).
The early KLs wouldn't clock at 100%, so DEC marketed an interim model
A CPU at 80% of the speed KLs currently run at.  A faster 8600 is to be
expected!  Even if only because of a faster clock and newer technology
in the chips.  My guess is within a year, unless it's all hush-hush until
Anaheim.  DECUS has always been prime for new announcements.
   UWO also got a "deal" on the 8600.  Every time we get a deal, DEC
announces a new machine soon after, making the deal a little less so.
If history repeats itself ...  As a sceptic about deals, DEC is "due".
   My guess is an 8700 (?) at least twice as fast as an 8600 and maybe
field upgradable, to be announced either at this decus (unlikely),
next spring (more likely), or a year from now.  If not, it would be
time to dump DEC stock again...

Brent Sterner
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