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From: sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Some specs on the new machines
Message-ID: <26F8F06E.10749@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:38:06 GMT
References: <SMITHW.90Sep19221915@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu>
Reply-To: sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <SMITHW.90Sep19221915@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu> smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith) writes:
>For those of you who didn't make it to the big show, I thought I'd post
>some info for you. . .
>
>There is also a 3rd party
>board available with two i860's on it claiming 160 Mflops.

Can the i860's be accessed as numerical coprocessors?  If so, then a 
board with two i860's would make the NeXT one of the fastest RISC
machines around for simulations.  To be useful, there would have to
be a C (some obj type C) compiler for the i860.

>
>Software bundles now come in two versions:
>Regular and Extended.
>
>Extended version is all that plus
>TeX
>Interface Builder
>Objective -C compiler
>C++ compiler
>Obj-C Class definitions
> and others...

Do upgrades from 1.0 automatically include extended software?  Many of 
us using 1.0 rely on TeX and the development tools.

steve