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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Benchmarks (was Re: Read the fine print!)
Summary: you get what you pay for
Keywords: low-end vs. bus
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:45:02 GMT
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In article <8135@milton.u.washington.edu> cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>In article <15640004@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes:
>>Even if the slab couldn't have an expansion slot, couldn't the CPU board
>>have been the same as the cube so that you could by an empty cube and
>>a NeXTdimension.  It is sad that the low-end customers are locked out
>>of the NeXTdimension.
>
>I wonder why NeXT didn't put a bus connector on the slab. If so, adding a
>NeXTdimension card will be something like adding a second pizza-box on the
>top or bottom of NeXTstation... kind like modular...

It's called money: expandable systems need a bigger chassis, a bigger power
supply, a bigger fan, a bus, and bus drivers on all the cards.  Unfortunately
it's true that poor folk can't afford expandable systems so easily, but be
thankful NeXT produced some options they (we) ***CAN*** afford!  Sun et al.
have already done so--anybody want to buy some of our Sun 3/50's?

Anyway, at the rate VLSI is shrinking, the 1992 NeXT Model 3 may very well
fit 32-bit color into a slab!


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