(Irrelevant post follows)

	City university invested heavily into MG-1s - at one point I think
	we had 50 or more of the beasts... We still have 10 or so of them
	lurking around somewhere... incredible machine - full unix, window
	manager, compiler, man pages and room to spare on a 20Mb disk...

	Ahh - the 32016 at 8mhz.. definitely real computing inaction... :)
	Anyone want to port NetBSD to them? (ducks :)

		David/abs

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On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 	Umm, the PERQ used a bit-slice design (based on the AMD 2900
> > chipset, I think). Good thing you didn't say this on alt.sys.perq...
> 
> Wargh!  You're right, that was the Whitechapel MG1, not the PERQ!  Ich
> idiot!  They did both look very similar, you must admit that, and they
> were right next to each other in the engineering workstation section
> when I saw them both that year (1981?) at Comdex.. :-)
> 
> Well, so much for the walk down memory lane.  It seems I'm too old and
> senile to even do that right anymore! :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
>