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From: ylh@grpthry.UUCP ( ylh )
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Query: Symmetric's 375 computer
Message-ID: <173@grpthry.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 00:08:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  4 00:08:35 1986
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Symmetric in California recently advertise in various magazines
(Byte, Unix/World) their '375' computer.  It is based on
the 32016, has 2 Mb ram, 50Mb winchester, 4 serial ports,
runs 4.2BSD and is loaded with languages (C, Pascal, Fortran,
Prolog, APL).  All for just $4,995.
(plus GnuEmacs, TeX, SPICE for $10 each!).

We ran a battery of benchmark programmes and found that it
performs at the level of a microPDP11/73.  Seems a little
poor for a 32016-based machine.

Does anyone have any comments? (On the machine, the company, etc).


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