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From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Parc Place Smalltalk-80 on the Macintosh
Message-ID: <4191@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 88 01:52:41 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<<jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)>>
<sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)>
"excepts from November 1, 1988 Computer Design"

<<Or you can order the Tek 88000-based Mac II plug-in today!  Stamp out 
vaporware!>>

<I never heard of this plugin board.  Can someone supply any details?>

Well, twist my arm.  In deference to netiquette, I'll only write a few excerpts 
from the article, which you can read for yourself for more information.  I am 
not a member of the group who made this product, and my knowledge of it is 
mostly limited to what is in the article.

"...The Tektronix TL88K-P Development Board lets users write applications for 
Motorola's 88100 RISC chip prior to that chip's market availability..."

"The development board includes the 88100 processor chip set, three cache 
memory management units, and 8 Mbytes of memory.  The 20MHz tool plugs into the 
NuBus on the Mac II and benchmarks at 17 MIPS, or 34 kDhrystones and 6 
MFlops..."

"... the Macintosh and Motorola processors can share information and workload, 
with the more intensive portions of a program running on the RISC chip... 
dual-processor applications can be programmed under the Macintosh's 
Programmer's Workshop, which is built out of standard Mac II toolbox routines."

"... software tools include a set of four full libraries of code used for 
applications development..."

"A variety of sample programs guide developers...  A fully configured TL88K-P 
Development Board is priced at $14,995, with lower-priced configurations 
available from $10,995."

Do not contact me, contact Tektronix Advance Technologies, PO Box 500, 
Beaverton, OR 97077.

:::::: Software Productivity Technologies -- Experiment Manager Project ::::::
:::::: Jan Steinman N7JDB	Box 500, MS 50-383	(w)503/627-5881 ::::::
:::::: jans@tekcrl.TEK.COM	Beaverton, OR 97077	(h)503/657-7703 ::::::