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From: rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: no RAM ever too much
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:37:03 GMT
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>No, esp. not if a multiprocessor system comes out for the machine.
>For some things, there is *never* too much RAM, **never**.

Well, I hope that you will be able to put 64MB on each of the
processorboards. Would mean 4 processors, and 256MB RAM.
The quantity of RAM should be in some relation to the throuput
of a system. I think for a 68030 64MB are enough. When there
are faster processors, there will also be more RAM (64Mbit-chips)
The same is hopefully true for the color NeXT. (Enough memory to
cache the image...)

>Gottdam I hate vaporware...)?

Me too, but NeXT did not officially announce the new NeXT. They
did however tell at the developer camp that at least a color
board will be announced in first quarter 1990.

Ron
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