The reason why maxine runs slower than 3max is, 3min and maxine were
designed as a 'lower-end' product line of DECstation/DECsystem family.
They have cut-half-speed TURBOchannel expansion bus and less costy
memory subsystem design.

For people who want to know about TURBOchannel design,

	ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/TriAdd/

directory will serve as valuable information source.  'TURBO.ps' is
good for introductionary.  Note that TURBOchannel was a product in the
age of Sbus, NuBus, MCA.  At the age, 486 PCs had miserable ISA,
bulky-and-less attractive EISA, and bad-joke of VESA local bus.

Tohru Nishimura

> Even at 12.5MHz, the TURBOchannel is reasonably fast. It's all in the
> protocol. In terms of real throughput with DMA traffic, a 25 MHZ TC is
> faster than fancy modern PCI busses. 
>
>> isildur
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Ted Lemon wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Oh yeah, that's right.   It's been a long while.   Somehow, the idea
>> of a 12.5MHz bus seems hard to imagine nowadays...   :'}