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Aucbvax.6298 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Thu Feb 25 12:10:32 1982 Re: Wicat Graphics >From BISBEY@USC-ISIB Thu Feb 25 10:52:27 1982 I too have visited Wicat's Utah offices. The graphics option for the 150-WS is 400x300. Also, the 150-WS is already multibus. We found the unit to be EXTREMELY SLOW. Wicat admitted that there were two wait states per memory access which (they said) slowed the 68000 to 63% of 8 MHZ (that's an effective speed of only 5 MHZ). Rumor has it that someone put a scope on the WICAT and found the 68000 to be running at an effective speed of only 3 MHZ. WICAT was working on a memory board that used 64K chips and a small page table for the first 2 meg. of address space. -------

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