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Subject: Fujitsu FM-11 observed - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 16:34:00 EDT
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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