Cromemco landmarks

From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>
Date: Fri Nov 9 03:33:36 2001

-------------Original Message-------------
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:25:22 -0500 (EST)
From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Subject: Re: Cromemco landmarks

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Allison wrote:

> From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>
>
> >And that in 1987 an XXU equipped system was almost twice as fast as a
> >VAX 11/780, which cost over four times as much as the largest Cromemco
> >system at the time.
>
> Sounds impressive...save for in 1987 the VAX11/780 was 9 years old and
> out of widespread use!! By 1987 the microVAX had been around for a while,
> the midrange VAX was 4x-8x faster than the 780 and easily 1/3 the size!

That, and there were much faster machines than VAXen back then.

Peace... Sridhar

> Cromemco was pretty neat but first, fastest not hardly.
>
> Allison
>
>

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Geez, they didn't say that they were the fastest or that the '780 was the fastest either, so why
argue non-points. They were just trying to create awareness among people who thought only minis
and mainframes could do 'serious' stuff that S-100 micros had come a long way since the Altair and
might do the same job reliably, as fast or faster, and for less money. Judging by the still prevailing
notion that they only made a great graphics card and some solid but humdrum systems, they
apparently didn't do a very good job...

mike
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 03:33:36 GMT