Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!doon From: doon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Harry W. Reed) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: difinicon board Message-ID: <2438@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 14:18:59 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2438 Posted: Tue Nov 5 14:18:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:22:20 EST References: <256@sdcarl.UUCP> Reply-To: doon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Harry W. Reed) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.micro.16k:399 net.micro.pc:5804 I have a friend who recently purchased the Definican DSI-32 for his AT. And being his only "system programmer", here are my impressions of the card. 1.) It's cute! A 32000 along with 2Mbytes of memory. The card has grat potential. 2.) The software supplied with the card is quite minimal. For the price of the card you receive a 32000 assembler and public domain versions of lisp and forth. I haven't played with the lisp/forth yet but, it is slightly a pain to create and run 32000 assembly language programs. The difficulty being that they give you very little documentation on the boards hooks into MS-DOS, so making the board do something useful can take quite a bit of "playing around" to see what works. They also do not give you any type of librarian to consturct you're own function libraries! (But what do I expect for $3500 anyway??) so this is another sore point. 3.) All in all without UNIX, I think, that the card is pretty much useless. Sure, it can run assembly language programs fatster than you can bat an eye, but there's just not much that you can do with it. Definicon is promising UNIX shortly. It is my opinion that the card will only really do well in a UNIX enviromment. Lets hope that it comes out soon. Any opions here are solely the result of line noise etc. etc ...