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From: rfischer@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Software and NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.183921.4751@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 18:39:21 GMT
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>>>Like I keep saying, there is no good argument (besides personal
>>>preference) against NeXT.  And there are many arguments for it.
>>How about PRICE?  You can buy a new car for what the NeXT will run ya. :)
>bought a mac.  $5000 retail ($3179 here at CMU) is a VERY CHEAP price. 
>For a 15 VAX MIPS machine.  

I believe that this is 15 of the 68000 MIPS.  The 68040 chip is very fast,
requiring only about 1.4 clock cycles on average to execute a 680x0
instruction.  Hence, the 25MHz 68040 in the NextStation can do 15MIPS.
Other comparisons?  Floating point multiply takes 50~60 clocks on
a 68882 and about 5 on a 68040.  When Apple starts selling 68040 based
Macs, even the IIfx will start to look slow.

Ray Fischer
rfischer@neon.stanford.edu