[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Garry Stahl]

Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:54:23PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps the early 68000 systems were slow -- I don't know 'cause I
>> never used a NeXT 68000 pizza box.  I spent 3 yrs as a developer using
>> NeXTSTEP on Intel hardware and it was decently fast.  Of course that
>> was about 10 yrs ago and hardware was slower then now.
>>     
>
> I used an original 68030 next cube with 8M RAM, let me tell you that was
> slow slow slow.  
>
> The 68040 2nd generation cubes and slabs were much better.  The 040 was
> a faster chip, but just as importantly the newer hardware shipped with
> 16M ram.
>   

I loved the performance of that chip in the Amiga 4000.  I have both a
040/25 and an 040/40. 


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