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

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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.