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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
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Subject: Re: Educational Discounting
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Date: 11 Oct 90 22:06:49 GMT
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In article <49.271466c4@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
>In article <1990Oct11.015737.3437@agate.berkeley.edu>, kawakami@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) writes:
>> [a whole bunch of stuff deleted]
>In what way does the NeXT machien that you are describing kick ass seriously
>out of the Atari and the Amiga?  Or is this just hopeful speculation?
>
The 68040 (when it's out) is very nice.  Running at 25 MHz (standard NeXT
speed), it'll be 2-3 times as fast as (I hate it when people say X times
faster than) a 68030 running at 32 MHz with a 68882.  Then there's that
Motorola DSP chip that everyone's been drooling over for a while now.

il
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