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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next status (software, hardware) ?
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Date: 26 May 90 20:51:19 GMT
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In article <9675@discus.technion.ac.il> devil%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Gil Tene) writes:
>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...

There are no other reports than what you could read: upgrade costs
1500$ for normal people, 1000$ for academia and developers

>2.) O.S. : NeXT uses MACH (right?). 

Yes

>    mailboxes. How compatible is it to BSD and SVR3.2, etc.
Quite compatible (to BSD 4.3)
>    how is the performance ?
very good
For more detail you can check for the documentation that is available
by ftp from CMU directly, but I do not kneo the address offhand.
(see also comp.os.mach)

>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
I hope, but the ones that know are not allowed to answer...

Also call NeXT at 1-800-848-NeXT for info on whats available from 3rd
parties.

Ronald


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