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From: mo@uunet.UU.NET (Mike O'Dell)
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Subject: SCAT45
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 15:28:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 15:28:59 1987
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ABLE Computer Inc (purveyors of DH11 clones and other
space-efficient UNIBUS peripherals) originally built
a product called SCAT45 which allowed you to populate
the entire 11/45 physical address space with bipolar
memory.  Talk about ZING!!!  I know of one person who
benchmarked one of the early (relatively slow) Unibus
"fast" floating point add-on processors and was mighty
surprised.  It turned out that his 11/45 with the
FFT running from SCAT45 was as fast as the add-on box!
Maybe the box was terribly slow, but the box makers
were surprised.  I don't remember which one...

	-Mike