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To: DRBES who wrote (73329)	3/4/2002 11:57:52 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

story.news.yahoo.com Interesting.... slightly OT though

To: DRBES who wrote (73329)	3/5/2002 5:41:48 AM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

XP for Hammer nearly ready to go See theinquirer.net "That means that the port of XP to the Hammer platform is very much further along the way than anyone previously supposed." The good news keep coming in... ;-) Peter

To: DRBES who wrote (73329)	3/5/2002 6:04:23 AM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

New grocery store PC, now with Athlon 2000+ Another grocery store chain, Lidl, a competitor to Plus and ALDI with over 4000 stores, will offer an Athlon PC next week. According to ZDNet.de the specifications will be: - Athlon 2000+ - ASUS A7N266-D mainboard - 256 MB DDR SDRAM (Samsung) - GeForce 4 [probably MX] - 80 GB hard disc - 32xCD burner (ASUS) - DVD drive (Samsung) - 2 firewire connections - Windows XP - Works Suite 2002 and other software The price will be 1299 Euro (ca. $1100). Peter

To: DRBES who wrote (73329)	3/5/2002 8:09:19 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

>BTW does anyone know if NSM ever came to the market with its CPU offering or is it still "under development?"< Which CPU would this be? If you are talking about the NS32K series, the answer is yes. I worked for Definicon Systems providing technical support for an NS32032 based coprocessor board that went into IBM PC ATs and compatibles. Curiously, even after we had an MC68020 based product, Motorola was buying the NS32032 based boards and couldn't wait for the NS32332 based board. We got NS32032 processors from TI whenever possible because those manufactured by NS tended to have a quality problem. Some of the companies manufacturing NS32032 based workstations tried to gain an advantage in the market by interfacing the MC68881 FPU to it. One of our engineers quit to launch his own venture called NOTA Computer which would have provided an MC68881 FPU adapter for Definicon boards had it ever got off the ground.