Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!atncpc!bruce
From: bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
Summary: Aw come on!!!
Message-ID: <275@atncpc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:53:03 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.184153.27766@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Ashton Tate NCPC, San Jose, CA.
Lines: 21

In article <1990Jun28.184153.27766@midway.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
> -------
> 
> A couple of Next rumours from MacWeek's "Mac the Knife" page:
> 
> 50 MhZ 68040 machine which will be in a Sun-like pizza box.  It will have no
> OD, but a 2.8 MB floppy instead.  Code name is "Warp 9".
> 
Come on people!  Get a grip on yourselves! What is wrong with this picture...

Not the part about NeXT and a new CPU.... That's not so far fetched..  
But a 50Mhz '040?  People, Motorola is having problems with the XC versions
(the final test silicon, i think..) running at 25 MHz.  It will take YEARS
for them to be able to approach that speed. 

Although I'd love to have one here, next to my RISC Macintosh 8-)


Bruce Henderson
Ashton Tate NeXTeam
User Interface KGB