joe@petsd.UUCP (08/01/84)
<> The Perkin-Elmer 7350 offers a 68000 under UniPlus~ derived from System III. Up to 1.3MB of memory in monochrome, 448KB in color. Has (720x256) bit mapped graphics - color version has palette of 27 colors in four planes. Includes 15MB Winchester and 2 Floppies. Up to Four RS-232 ports plus optional IEEE-488. MenuMaker~ front end for easy access to applications. Optionally available are VisiWord~, The FinalWord~, Supercomp-Twenty~, UNIFY~, RM-COBOL~, and DI-3000 family of graphics libraries - Graphs, Contour Maps, and Metafiles. Also, home grown personal file system called The Record Keeper~. Nice features are vivid colors, bezel mounted soft keys, attractive prices start under $10,000, and growth path into Perkin-Elmer Series 3200 running XELOS~, which is the first non- AT&T System V Release 2 on the market. "Misfeatures" are paucity of expansion slots (but look out for announcement soon), only four ports and memory limit of color machine (also soon to be fixed). ~trademarks regards, joe -- Full-Name: Joseph M. Orost UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!joe US Mail: MS 313; Perkin-Elmer; 106 Apple St; Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 Phone: (201) 870-5844
brent@itm.UUCP (Brent) (08/06/84)
X Let's clarify the Perkin-Elmer claim. Their System V.2 is *not* now on the market, and likely won't be till October. If you buy one of thir 68K based Sys III workstations you can currently migrate upward to their 3200 series running enhanced Verion 7. How you'd migrate your software upwards (?) is up to you. -- Brent Laminack (akgua!itm!brent)