jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) (05/14/84)
<Eat Me...> $29.95 is far too high if the damn wafervax runs VMS...
cbspt002@abnjh.UUCP (Marc E. Kenig @ ATT-IS Piscataway NJ) (05/15/84)
I<flame on..> besides needing a pocket 30MB winchester, what's wrong with VMS? At least it can run commercially available software...
jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) (05/18/84)
Re: wafervax running commercially available software... Yes, and pigs have feet. I want the UNIX boot ROMS installed with mine. If it runs VMS, I'ld rather spend an extra $100 and get an HP calculator.... Jon Shapiro
broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) (05/18/84)
My understanding is that the MicroVax I is a multi-chip version of a Vax,
while the MicroVax II will be a single-chip implementation. I've never
heard of a "Wafervax", and the $29.95 seems ludicrous even if it were just
for the chip itself.
--
-Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo)ABN.COSCOM-CE@USC-ISID.ARPA (05/22/84)
SGM, My Wafervax is now on order with DEC. They tell me they are backordered though and that it may be 4-6 weeks. Like yourself, I am a fervent Kamikaze Ducks addict. Please send me any info you develope on porting CPM 2.2 to the Wafervax. I am sure that it will run bunches faster on the Wafervax...a reason reason in itself to pay $29.95 for the Wafervax. Thanks in advance. Kevin Rappold 1LT GS 1st COSCOM <ABN.COSCOM-CE>@ISID.ARPA
ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (05/22/84)
Wilco. Incidentally, another unit moved Kamikaze Ducks to a Wang PC, compiled it, and it became Hypersonic Ducks! Ducks leave a regular vapor trail on the amber CRT! Once we get that 52000 baud line driver in from the Wafervax, I'll be able to disassemble the UN*X roms and do a proper job of porting -- MBASIC is OK, but loove those primitives! I AM concerned about ducks overrunning the CRT boundary and denting the case sides however -- inertial starts to build even in photons at these speeds! Possibly a nitrogen bath for the CRT? SGM K
jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) (05/26/84)
<This "feature" eats all those silly first lines...>
I have had my WaferVax for several weeks now, and I have been
quite happy with it. However, one warning: even though it
fits in your back pocket DO NOT PUT IT THERE! If you accedently
sit on it, the screen tends to get slightly mangled, and this
allows the ducks to escape.
--
C. J. Sampson
{inhp4, uccsrg, ubc-vision, sask}!alberta!jeff
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