Query: Symmetric 375 computer

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From: ylh
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1986 02:25

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I posted the following message to net.micro a few days ago
but obviously this is a better place for it (Apologies for not having
followed this group before, if you think my questions have
already been answered):

Symmetric in California recently advertise in various magazines
(Byte, Unix/World) their '375' computer.  It is based on
the 32016, has 2 Mb ram, 50Mb winchester, 4 serial ports,
runs 4.2BSD and is loaded with languages.  All for just $4,995.
(GnuEmacs, TeX, SPICE for $10 each!).

We ran a battery of benchmark programmes and found that it
performs at the level of a microPDP11/73.  Seems a little
poor for a 32016-based machine.

Does anyone have any comments? (On the machine, the company, etc).


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Subject: Query: Symmetric 375 computer
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