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From: devil@techunix.BITNET (Gil Tene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Next status (software, hardware) ?
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Date: 25 May 90 06:16:30 GMT
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Reply-To: devil%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Gil Tene)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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Hello NeXTfolk,

        I am interested in knowing the status of NeXT's "technology"
up to now. I am very interested in the new 68040 promise, and know
of NeXTstep's reputation as "the best" unix user-interface around.

I would like to hear from people on this newsgroup on several topics:

1.) new 68040 machines : What are the expected configurations and
    pricing ? I understand that NeXT has made an announcment, but
    haven't seen a complete report of it on the net...

2.) O.S. : NeXT uses MACH (right?). I would like to hear about the
    status of MACH compared to other UNIX systems. I understand that
    MACH is the basis of OSF's OSF/1 O.S. . I would like to know
    about features such as sockets, shared memory, semaphores,
    mailboxes. How compatible is it to BSD and SVR3.2, etc.
    how is the performance ?

3.) NeXT software : what is available ? any nice third party stuff ?

4.) DSP software and features : any modem software out there?
    Does anyone know if NeXT intends to use the new M96002 in their
    newer products (that is SOME DSP chip.) ?. Any good signal
    processing software out there.

5.) etc, reflections on the NeXT machine.

I will summerize to the Net an}iy E-mail responses I receive...

AdvTHANKS,

Gil.