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Re: Gadgets by Small - Possible new '030 add-on board!

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From: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1989 04:58
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In article <529@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:
>dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'Post No Nicknames' Newton) writes:
>
>>   You mean... my ST isn't an 8-MIPS machine?  Oh no.  Sadness.
>
>It's not even a 1-MIPS (VAX/780-MIPS!) machine. It's on the same level
>as a VAX/750, at 0.7 MIPS or so.

On the other hand, the main computing resource at the laboratory where I work
(food R&D, but what the hey) was a VAX 11/750 for several years.  And I got a
LOT of mileage out of casually mentioning to the real computer people that my
ST acted a lot like their monster, except that since it was single user...
                                        Steve J.
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Message-ID: <1989Nov22.045800.3530@chinet.chi.il.us>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!saj
References: <23970@cup.portal.com> <2278@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <859@carroll1.UUCP> <529@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!saj
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gadgets by Small - Possible new '030 add-on board!
Summary: Not so bad
Keywords: ST VAX
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.045800.3530@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Nov 89 04:58:00 GMT
References: <23970@cup.portal.com> <2278@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <859@carroll1.UUCP> <529@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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