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From: fellman@celece.ucsd.edu (Ronald Fellman)
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Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: NeXT competitors
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Date: 28 Nov 89 15:21:19 GMT
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In article <1989Nov26.041027.24776@NCoast.ORG> mikes@ncoast.ORG (Mike Squires) writes:
>I think the real competition for the NeXT (or Sun, for that matter) is
>a 486 box running either SCO UNIX V 3.2 or Interactive 386/ix.  I have
>a copy of SCO UNIX V 3.2 and it has X11, NFS, TCP/IP, Motif.  SCO is
>selling a package that will run mutiple 486 CPUs in parallel - and a 
>486 is 20,000 Dhrystones/sec, not 4000.  Entry level 486 boxes will

I just learned that a 68040 microprocessor running at the same speed as
a 68030 is apparently more than THREE TIMES FASTER than the 68030.  When (if?)
NeXT comes out with the '040 CPU board (this Spring?) they won't have to worry
to much about the '486.  It will also support mutiple CPUs and has
a built in floating-point unit which is much faster than the 68882.

-ron fellman (rfellman@ucsd.edu)