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Article #61Re: Wicat Graphics
From: ucbvaxworks
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1982 12:10
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works From: ucbvax!works Newsgroups: fa.works Subject: Re: Wicat Graphics Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1982 12:10:32 +0000 Message-ID: <anews.Aucbvax.6298>