Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Fujitsu FM-11 observed - (nf) Message-ID: <3400048@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 16:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.3400048 Posted: Mon Aug 20 16:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 01:13:32 EDT Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #N:uokvax:3400048:000:1227 Nf-From: uokvax!emjej Aug 20 15:34:00 1984 #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