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From: osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Programming the NeXTdimension
Message-ID: <3561.27274c37@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 25 Oct 90 20:33:59 GMT
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In article <3706@amc-gw.amc.com>, kenb@amc-gw.amc.com (Ken Birdwell) writes:
> I've heard that:
>     "Its currently not possible for outsiders to write software for the i860".  
.. 
> What! Why? Thats really stupid!  The i860 is the only reason Im interested 
> in the NeXT. ...
..
> Anyway, why doesn't NeXT want to allow access to those 80MFLOP's?  (Well, I 
> know I can get at least 15-40 from it).  From everything Ive read the NeXT 
> Dimension board is by far the best on the market.  Realtime video capture 
> and compression, 24bit color, 40MHZ i860.. what more could you ask for.  Now 
> I find out they wont let me use it :^(   Life's not fair. 

Same thoughts! I would like to put three (or more) NeXT Dimension boards in one
machine and have three monitors, each with separate images. And have easy acces
by having a parallelizing and vectorizing C-compiler to put each board
handle different data efficiently.