Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!edwardj From: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Risc rumors and Tao7 Message-ID: <71218@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 91 13:19:32 GMT References: Reply-To: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 37 In article smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: [...] >about this last year. The MIPS chip is a worthy one, but >I would think it will be rather expensive. Anyone know what >the R6000 set goes for now? The MIPS workstation version of this >costs around $150,000 I think. The R6000 is an ECL chip set for very high-end machines that compete with mainframes and high-end minicomputers. The more suitable chip would be the R4000, but that is not available at the moment. The current MIPS chip is the R3000, which appears in several relatively low-cost workstations (around $10k). >Anybody heard what is going to happen at NeXT this fall? Probably either an multiprocessing or RISC or both machine. >They still don't have NeXTdimension working. Maybe they'll >roll it out *again*. At the last Puget Sound NeXT Users Group meeting the NeXT representative confirmed that the culprit was the C-cubed JPEG compression chipset. He said that the NeXTDimension board might ship without this chip; that this was the "current plan". Personally I think that severely reduces the attractiveness of the board since without the hardware compression, real-time video capture to disk is not possible. Hopefully they will leave a socket for future upgrades if and when the 550 starts working correctly, but it was unclear what the real plan will end up as. At the very least I would think the board will be less expensive! -- Edward Jung Microsoft Corp. My opinions do not reflect any policy of my employer.