Since there has been a fair amount of both correct and incorrect information
concerning the Tek 4404 Artificial Intelligence System on the net,
the time has come to set the record straight.  

The Tektronix 4404 is a personal, desktop computer system oriented towards
the development and delivery of AI oriented applications.  It is a fully
supported Tek product, backed by the Tektronix sales and service
organization.  The basic system is priced at $14,950.

The basic 4404 hardware includes:

        10mhz (no wait states) 68010 processor
        1 megabyte of RAM
        Virtual memory support hardware (max 8MB per process)
        Floating-point co-processor (National 32081)
        Monochrome bitmap display (1024x1024 "virtual display" over which
                a 640x480 viewport may be smoothly panned using the mouse.)
                The 128k frame buffer is directly addressable and is
                independent of the 1MB system RAM.
        The above mentioned mouse (3  button)
        40 megabyte hard-disk (a recent change, it was originally
                announced with 20 MB)
        A 327KB (formatted) 5-1/4 inch floppy.
        RS-232, Centronics printer interface, keyboard, clock, sound, etc.

Standard software includes:

        The Smalltalk-80 System.  This is the full Smalltalk-80 system as
                developed at Xerox PARC with many enhancements and fixes
                by Tektronix.  It is implemented via Tek's proprietary
                Smalltalk-80 language interpreter.  Benchmarks
                indicate that the performance of this implementation is
                approximately 2.5 times faster than the standard implementation
                on the Xerox 1100 (Dolphin).

        The 4404 OS.  This is a single user, multi-tasking OS with virtual
                memory support.  The OS might be most accurately described
                as a "Unix act-a-like" i.e. it has a process model, file system,
                system calls, etc. which are generally equivalent to their
                corresponding Unix features.  It is, however, not AT&T Unix.
                It is implemented in assembly language and is highly optimized
                for the 68000 family.  The OS overhead, excluding network
                support, but including everything else in the kernel
                (buffers,  VM support, etc.) is about 100K bytes.  In addition
                it is FAST!

        System 5 compatible C compiler and library.  As well as an assembler,
                linker, and debugger.

        ANSI 3.64 (i.e. VT-100) terminal emulator.  This means both that a
                program running locally may view the keyboard and display as
                a ANSI standard terminal and that the entire system may be
                used as an ANSI terminal to a remote host.

Options include:

        A 1 MB memory expansion board.
        Franz Lisp.
        Prolog.
        Emacs.
        Ethernet interface and support for TCP/IP protocols.
        Additional mass storage.

For further information including complete pricing information please contact
your nearest Tek sales office.  (There is probably one in your area).  
Or look in the next Tektronix catalog.  Please note that your local Tek
sales engineer is the only official and reliable source of information
concerning Tek products.

                                Thanks for all the interest,

                                Allen Wirfs-Brock
                                Software Project Leader, Tek 4404
                                Computer Research Lab. and AI Machine program
                                P.O. Box 500  MS 50-662
                                Tektronix Inc.
                                Beaverton, Oregon 97077

                                tektronix!tekchips!allenw

Unix is a trademark of AT&T,  Smalltalk-80 is a trademark of Xerox,
Tek and Tektronix are trademarks of Tektronix, Inc.