cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue) (07/10/85)
The AT&T 3B2/400 Computer was announced about 2 weeks ago. The 3B2/400 is architecturally the same as a 3B2/300, but several capacity upgrades and performance upgrades are included. The 3B2/400 is based on the WE32100 at 10MHz versus the WE32000 at 7.2MHz in the 3B2/300. The WE32100 has a 64 instruction cache on the chip and boosts the 3B2/400s MIP rate to 1.1 MIPs (versus .65 for the 3B2/300). The 3B2/400 supports the WE32106 Math Accelerator Unit (MAU). The MAU supplies hardware floating point support which the 3B2/300 sorely needed in some cases. The 23MB cartridge tape is integral to the unit along with the floppy disk drive. Two hard disks (any combo of 30 and 72MB) can reside internal to the 3B2/400 (one disk internal to the 3B2/300). Up to 4MB of main memory can reside in the box (2MB for the 3B2/300). The I/O backplane contains 12 I/O slots versus 4 for the 3B2/300. (1 slot is used by the cartridge tape controller so 11 are available). The 3B2/400 will support up to 25 users versus 8-12 supported by the 3B2/300. Size wise, the 3B2/400 is about twice as high as the 3B2/300 and a little bit larger in footprint. I don't think I missed anything. End of product summary. Chris Donahue AT&T Info. Sys. Application Engineering
sambo@ukma.UUCP (Inventor of micro-S) (07/15/85)
In article <357@cuae2.UUCP> cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue) writes: >The AT&T 3B2/400 Computer was announced about 2 weeks ago... >I don't think I missed anything. What about price (relative to the 3B2/300, or in absolute terms)? ----------------------------------------- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 ARPA: ukma!sambo<@ANL-MCS>, or sambo%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa, or even anlams!ukma!sambo@ucbvax.arpa UUCP: {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!sambo, or cbosgd!ukma!sambo "Micro-S is great, if only people would start using it."
cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue) (07/19/85)
Prices range from $20,000 to $36,000 for the 3B2/400. The low end includes 1MB of memory, 1 30MB disk, floppy drive, cartridge tape drive, 1 I/O Ports card. The high end includes 2MB of memory, 2 72MB disks, floppy, cart. tape, 2 I/O Ports cards. The MAU chip can be ordered as an add-on later or in the package. The high end with MAU is $36,500. Same discount schedule as the 3B2/300. Chris Donahue AT&T Info. Sys. Application Engineering