Subject: Re: Well, I *wanted* to say that my pc532 lived!
To: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.CDROM.COM>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-pc532
Date: 10/11/1995 18:00:30
(Irrelevant post follows)
City university invested heavily into MG-1s - at one point I think
we had 50 or more of the beasts... We still have 10 or so of them
lurking around somewhere... incredible machine - full unix, window
manager, compiler, man pages and room to spare on a 20Mb disk...
Ahh - the 32016 at 8mhz.. definitely real computing inaction... :)
Anyone want to port NetBSD to them? (ducks :)
David/abs
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On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Umm, the PERQ used a bit-slice design (based on the AMD 2900
> > chipset, I think). Good thing you didn't say this on alt.sys.perq...
>
> Wargh! You're right, that was the Whitechapel MG1, not the PERQ! Ich
> idiot! They did both look very similar, you must admit that, and they
> were right next to each other in the engineering workstation section
> when I saw them both that year (1981?) at Comdex.. :-)
>
> Well, so much for the walk down memory lane. It seems I'm too old and
> senile to even do that right anymore! :-)
>
> Jordan
>