stone@triton.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) (12/05/90)
That's right folks, the 040 upgrades are really real now. You get a free tooth-cleaning device with every 040 Upgrade that looks like its straight from Marathon Man to pull the SIMMS out of your old motherboard. Unfortuneately for you people who have designed net-boot print servers out of your old 030 boards, you have to return them. The upgrade is simple and well-documented. The only slightly creative work was trying to put the Optical drive dust filter on: you have to remove the power supply to your hard disk to make way for the filter, and thread the hard drive's cable underneath the opticals's cable where the cable clamps connect on the partition between the motherboard and the drives. As for performance for developers, DataPhile, which use to make from scratch in a little over an hour, now builds in 21 minutes. Links which use to take 5 minutes now take 2.5 [disk intensive stuff doesn't show the Big win]; TextArt just screams, the window server is ultra peppy, and once again my faith in "little Black" is renewed. In fact, I am even quite willing to overlook the words "Sample" on the actual 040 chip, which has a huge "cooling tower" epoxied to it, in what looks like an un-robotic fashion. Keywords: andrew
SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) (12/16/90)
In article <1990Dec5.023215.13822@ariel.unm.edu>, stone@triton.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) says: > > That's right folks, the 040 upgrades are really real now. >You get a free tooth-cleaning device with every 040 Upgrade that looks like >its straight from Marathon Man to pull the SIMMS out of your old >motherboard. It's a deadly looking tool, isn't it? While I was at NeXT Camp learing how to repair NeXT Cubes, David Kottle, our instructor, called this device the `Dentist's Tool from Hell.' Just holding it kinda makes you feel mean. [ text deleted ] > TextArt just screams, the window server is ultra peppy, and once >again my faith in "little Black" is renewed. In fact, I am even quite >willing to overlook the words "Sample" on the actual 040 chip, which has a >huge "cooling tower" epoxied to it, in what looks like an un-robotic >fashion. Oh God. You have got to be kidding. If it's really true (which I expect it is since Andrew's message lacks :-)'s) I can't imagine how people (ie, the press, Mac users, IBM users, etc.) are going to rip into this one. Might as well sit back, grab a 6-pack and some pretzels, and get ready to enjoy the show. Sal. ------- Salvatore Saieva Internet: slvqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu Queens College, Academic Computer Center BITNET: slvqc@cunyvm.bitnet 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, N.Y. 11367 DeskNet: (718) 520-7662 awk, sed, grep, lex, yacc, make, >, <, |,... ``I got the Power!''