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From: jeff@kestrel.ARPA (Jeff Kitson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Hummingboard infos
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 17:02:44 EDT
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Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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The Gold Hill data sheet says, "This new system performs up to five times
faster than the PC AT-based GCLISP 286 Developer, providing an attractive
PC alternative to LISP machine development."  (note: GCLISP 286 Developer
is a Gold Hill product).

The Hummingboard holds 6Mbytes of RAM (and can be upgraded to 24Mbytes 
when 1Mbit DRAMS are available (I was told the board uses DRAMS in SIP
packages so that may affect availability and cost).  The data sheet also
says, "The HummingBoard supports the Intel Above-board standard, allowing
users to run large EMS standard programs on their 8088 or 80286 processors
accessing the 386 HummingBoard's on-board memory."  I'm not sure if
this means that the HummingBoard can use the EMS memory for lisp.

I can only pass on what I've read in their brochures and from talking to
someone there.  I would certainly like to hear more from anyone who
is actually using the HummingBoard.
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Jeff Kitson                 jeff@kestrel.arpa