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From: yoram@tom.columbia.edu (Yoram Eisenstadter)
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Subject: Re: Hummingboard infos
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Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 20:26:15 EDT
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In article <1958@well.UUCP> jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs) writes:

>The Humming board is an 80386 with 16 megabytes of memory and
>"special" hardware additions, apparently to do typechecking.
>
>It is a "coprocessor" board, with a price around $7,000.  It is available
>from Gold Hill and runs their Development Environment.  It is said to
>provide a speed improvement of a factor of 2 over an AT.

Do you really mean a factor of 2?  Sounds like it should be more like
10.  Any of the features you mentioned (386 instead of 286, 16 meg
memory, hardware type-checking) should contribute at least a factor
of 2 in performance.  If it's really a factor of two, they must be
doing something seriously wrong...

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