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From: rca@tahoe.cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: rumors! A friend with unofficial ties at NeXT claims that in September
Keywords: NeXT rumors
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Date: 14 Apr 90 02:42:33 GMT
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>Uhm, I confused again. A "multi-processor board" means that the current
>board can't do that. But I thought the MACH et al were just waiting for
>that NBIC chip to be finished. The software's already there...what else
>is missing? I REALLY thought the reason for the Cube to have those other
>slots is so my machine could be some sort of awesome 4-cpu screamer.
>Am I going to have to replace the current hardware (i.e. total cpu
>board swap-out?)...I don't think I like that!

Well, the board they have now can do it. I was told by NeXT ppl that it was 
tried out. But do you really want to have 4 times the video chips, the SCSI
bus, the ethernet etc? I guess what this will be is a board with a couple of
CPU's and lots of memory and nothing else. The only thing it can do is speed 
things up, but it will not replace the current or future main boards.
BTW: the bus chip is working...

Ronald
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