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Re: Wicat Graphics

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From: ucbvaxworks
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1982 12:10
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>From BISBEY@USC-ISIB Thu Feb 25 10:52:27 1982
I too have visited Wicat's Utah offices.  The graphics option for the
150-WS is 400x300.  Also, the 150-WS is already multibus.   We found
the unit to be EXTREMELY SLOW.  Wicat admitted that there were two
wait states per memory access which (they said) slowed the 68000 to
63% of 8 MHZ (that's an effective speed of only 5 MHZ).  Rumor has it
that someone put a scope on the WICAT and found the 68000 to be
running at an effective speed of only 3 MHZ.  WICAT was working on
a memory board that used 64K chips and a small page table for the
first 2 meg. of address space.
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Subject: Re: Wicat Graphics
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1982 12:10:32 +0000
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