From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: random rumors - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.294 Posted: Fri Jul 30 04:26:29 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 02:38:26 1982 #R:sri-unix:-230800:uiucdcs:10400008:000:669 uiucdcs!grunwald Jul 30 03:51:00 1982 >From what I have heard (very little) the IBM thing is put out by IBM Instruments, a wierd little division of IBM which doesn't need to wait years to get thing out on the market because of a buisness office. It features a 68000 and a VERSAbus backplane, which is nice since the VERSAbuss was designed for the 68000 and it allows the sucker to whip at top speed. However, if my experence with a Motorola EXORmacs system is of any use, the VERSAbus boards cost mucho $$ -- over half the board (which is about 1.50 times the size of a multi-buss board) is crammed with buss drivers. The drivers are Schotky (sp?) TTL, which is what makes it all fast enough for the 68000.