emjej@uokvax.UUCP (08/20/84)
#N:uokvax:3400048:000:1227 uokvax!emjej Aug 20 15:34:00 1984 I must admit that if someone were to offer to give me a Macintosh, I'd laugh in his/her face. I say this after having seen the Fujitsu FM-11. Contrary to what is reported in *Creative Computing*, this machine does not contain an 8086. It is a dual processor 6809 box that IS NOT SOLD IN THE U.S. (felgarcarb!) It was running windowing software under OS-9/6809 Level Two this past weekend in Des Moines. A background process was drawing a multi-colored fractal in one window, unperturbed as far as I could see (speedwise or otherwise) by a friend playing with the mouse in another window (doodling on screen) while I was at the keyboard checking out the module directory and available memory. The only time I saw it slow down was when the background process painted most of a window (about a quarter of the screen) in solid color; then the mouse was ignored for maybe five seconds. It has 192K video RAM, 128K user RAM, two 5" floppies by default (one can get a hard disk), and 640*400 color display (dunno size of palette or number of colors that can simultaneously go on the screen). The Japanese price translates into between $1200 and $1300. They say they're having trouble with FCC type acceptance... James Jones
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (09/05/84)
/***** uokvax:net.micro / sri-arpa!ARPA / 7:06 pm Aug 30, 1984 */
...please reply directly to my address to cut traffic.
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Sigh. Since this message, nearly as notes could tell, simply came from
sri-arpa!ARPA, I can't honor this (quite proper and laudable) request.
(Not casting aspersions on anybody or anybody's software--OK?) So...
All folks interested in hearing about OS-9 (via mail, and from an
admittedly enthusiastic user) should send mail directly to me,
preferably at ...!{uokvax, mtxinu}!ea!jejones. Microware has a VAX,
and I hope that they get attached to Usenet soon.
James Jones