CPU and OS

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Feb 12 13:11:51 2001

> It's a heavy and rather slow beast. I dumped about 30 of them
> ten years ago.

I tried to sell mine, complete with docs for $15 at a Hamfest nearly 10
years ago and got no nibbles. This was before Linux hit it big.

> The 68000 can be replaced with a 68010 for a slight
> pickup in performance.

That's nice to know. I have a few '010s (the VAX-BI COMBOARD used them).
I didn't assume it was a drop-in replacement due to the MOVEcc instruction
being now priv'ed (AmigaDOS 1.1 will croak if you upgrade the CPU without
running a TRAP patch (available in the olden days). The calc program was
the way to test the patch. If you Guru'ed, you weren't patched.

> It ran either Uniplus (SysIII with some BSD add on stuff like vi)...

As I said, mine has Uniplus (w/boxed docs and media).

> The graphics are pretty slow and the bus can't really crank past the
> slow speed the Versabus is running at.

We used ours strictly for text-based development on the console and a couple
of TTY ports. Still, it wasn't a fast compiler, I did notice, even in 1987
when I was using it.

> The machines are pretty solid -- I took a news feed on an XF200
> (MicroXelos version of the box in a tower case with 3 80mb drives in
> it).

Fun. What kind of disc? SCSI? Am I right in remembering that the 7500
has SASI?
 
> The box had 15 serial ports on it plus the console. Wild little
> minitower. Worked great. Never sold.

I'm sure by the time it was produced, the world had moved on.

-ethan


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