NCD PEX support Was: X Terminals with PEX support

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From: James Peters
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:43

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everything you want know about pex and ncd's but were afraid to ask.

kris olander, kriso@ncd.com writes:
>The NCD products that will support PEX are 17cr, 19c, and 19g.
>The original message said "17c, 19c, and 19g..."  The 17c is a
>motorola 68k based system and will not have enough umph to
>handle to demands of a PEX system.  The 17cr is our RISC based
>17 inch color system.  It uses the motorola 88k microprocessor.
>Just wanted to clarify this to avoid any misunderstandings.  :)

ken garnett, keg@ncd.com writes:
>=> my main interest is in a pex server for the 17c
>
>Sorry, we don't do PEX for that model.  Only the three I mentioned (17cr,
>19g, and 19c) have PEX.  The reason for this is performance -- these three
>models are the only ones with floating-point hardware and a fast CPU.  I'm
>afraid anything less would just be too slow & ugly to be useable for PEX.

BTW, the folks at ncd were extremely timely in getting this info
to me. hopefully i will get a 17cr in my stocking this year ;).

take care,
james, peters@convex.com

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Subject: NCD PEX support Was: X Terminals with PEX support 
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