Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: SOME ADVICE FOR NEXT Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 23:47:57 GMT Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: comp Organization: /home/server2/melling/.organization Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: client5.cs.psu.edu Forgive me if I seem to be jumping the gun, but now is the time for NeXT to consider this. I believe that NeXT's biggest advantage over Apple is that its OS isn't written in 68000 assembler. This means that they can develop a new machine around a new high performance RISC chip. The new generation of RISC's are going to be in the 40 mip range. I doubt if the 68050 will be ready before 1992. The new generation RISC's should appear by early next year. By next September NeXT could have a 40 mip machine on the market. Apple will surely have an 040 Mac by January, but they have to stop there until they rewrite their OS. I hope NeXT is hard at work building a RISC based machine, so that they can maintain the performance edge they now have over Apple. -Mike