WCW MG-1 Personal workstation : Byte review

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From: louie
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1985 06:20

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I'm sure by now others have seen the review in the Febuary 1985 issue
of BYTE on the Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 personal workstation.  It
is described in the BYTE U.K. column starting on page 379. [Pause while
audience rushes to BYTE mag...].  The starting price seems to be around
5500 british pounds;  if you know what the current exchange rate is you'd
have a better idea how good a deal that is!

Hardware: 8 MHz NS32016 processor, 32082 MMU, 32081 FPU, 512KB memory 
expandable to 8MB in 512KB chunks.  100KB used for 1000 x 800 pixal bit
mapped display.  Floppy and winnie too. Ethernet and GENIX (4.1BSD).

According to review, implementation seems to be anti-APPLE; i.e. use hardware
instead of software to do things.  Like hardware support for RasterOps on the
display and for the mouse.

Looks real neat, and maybe an affordable UNIX workstation for home/personal
use.  Anyone have any more info that's didn't appear in the BYTE article, or
perhaps actually seen/used one of these?

-- 

Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH
Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
University of Maryland, College Park

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