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From: kgnome@hercule.cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What NeXT *should* do next.
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Date: 26 Mar 90 20:51:05 GMT
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	The argumnet that RISC chips should be used with conjunction of AIX for the next NeXT is
	very strange.

Why would anybody than buy an IBM made machine. At least in theory, very little would
differentiate the two companies products [ if IBM & NeXT both produced on same platform ]

This would trully be a farce in the educational areas ... Where IBM, with mighty deep pockets
could finance more "User Friendly" computers to the schools ... and then NeXT would be stuck
out in the cold from "the main" source of their revenue.

I know this is over simplified, but such an occurence is so silly, that it may happen.

To go against such threat, and to quelch the demand of people for speed & performance ..
Please, [ NeXT officials listen-up ] , make the motherboard capable of accepting multiple 68040s 
directly ... I wouldn't mind 2 of them , one as original with the machine, the other as an option
for "Power Users"... 68040 paralellism should go well for speed & power ... and Mach would simply 
run better [ understatement ] ..


And if the community is still not enthusiastic, then NeXT should simply co-design with 3rd Party 
the first of many coprocessor boards , based on anything the market [ high-end ] trully wishes ..


	Of course ... this is from an UnderGrad ...

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