Date   : Sat, 04 Feb 1989 03:46:37 GMT
From   : mcmi!hdr!unocss!mlewis@uunet.uu.net (Marcus S. Lewis)
Subject: SUPERMICRO magazine

In article <8902030459.AA05706@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, gonzalez@BBN.COM writes:
.....
> issue of a magazine called SUPERMICRO.  It is described as a magazine 
> devoted to VMEbus, Multibus I/II, STD bus and S-100 bus.  It is coverage 
> of the S-100 bus that is of interest to me.  Has anyone subscribed or,
> at least, seen this magazine?  I hesitate largely because the $24 annual
> rate is for four issues.  A bit expensive for a few product announcements, 
> don't you think?  

Expensive it is.  I have issues 2,3,4 of S-100 Journal, and issue 1 of 
Supermicro, which is what they have become.  There is apparently not enough
support for S-100 systems out there.  As S-100 Journal, they carried articles
on HOW_TO_BUILD (a) a 1-Mb Static Ram Board (with schematics), a four-port
serial I/O board, with schematics, a Clock/claendar board, with schematics.
I rather doubt that as SUPERMICRO they will have such well-done articles, 
since the real bux are in VME, but there were no articles as yet.  Yes, they
have a LARGE section on product announcements.  For software, they heavily
favor Concurrent CP/M and CRDOS (Cromemco's OS), with an occasional mention
of MS-DOS.  They don't as a rule favor MS-DOS, but do accept the necessity 
of using it on a 286/Z80 board, for instance.  There was a damning review
of a 386 S-100 board in the latest issue, concluding that it wasn't worth
the cost, unless you happen to run the two or three programs the board was
tested with and ran.  They are trying, give 'em a chance.  FAR better than
Byte has been in the last 8 years.  So far.

Marc Lewis - A Z-100 owner - 


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