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    26-Oct-90  09:52:27
Sb: #7777-#Atlanta Fest?
Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)


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No special procedures were necessary to boot MONK.  Place the MONK boot disk in
the floppy drive and hit the RESET button.  A menu appears allowing the user to
select the device to boot from.  Select the floppy drive and MONK is up and
running.  If desired, the boot file can be placed on the hard drive and the
hard drive can be selected for boot.  The menu includes an option to set which
device to autoboot from.  BTW, the SYSTEM IV will allow installing most any
operating system capable of being run on a 68000.

Peripheral Technology (co-exhibitor and manufacturer of the SYSTEM IV) was
selling K4 boards and kits.  The 16 MHz high-performance K4 board is the heart
of the SYSTEM IV.  Based upon the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, this XT size
system board is jam-packed with features such as 4 serial and 2 parallel ports,
battery-backed up clock, on-board floppy disk controller supporting high
density drives and 7 PC/XT expansion slots.  The K4 is IBM PC/XT hardware
compatible - meaning you can use top-notch, low-cost peripherals available from
your local computer store!  Up to 4 MBytes of RAM on the mother board with an
additional 8 MBytes available on an optional expansion board should more than
satisfy the needs of the most memory-hungry user.

One of the highlights of the show for us, was when Kevin Pease came over to our
booth and asked if he could run his 'DRYSTONE' test on our machine. We agreed
and he measured the performance of the SYSTEM IV at 1666 drystones! This was
with VGA installed and running and other processes either waiting or sleeping. 
Had VGA been removed, no change in performance would have occurred. The SYSTEM
IV performance is independent of the graphics and memory installed.

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