Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usenet!prism!mcgredo From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color ships... Keywords: nextstation color Message-ID: <1991Mar13.173644.1850@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 91 17:36:44 GMT References: Sender: @lynx.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: mcgredo@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor) Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu > >NeXT SHIPS 68040 COLOR WORKSTATION >[...] > Like all the other members of NeXT's product family, >NeXTstation Color offers an unsurpassed range of capabilities as >standard, such as the NeXTstep user interface and application >development environment; the ability to run the same application >software package, unmodified, on any NeXT workstation; true Just to engage in some tea-leaf reading: The fact that NeXT is touting the ability to run the same application package on all platforms without modification suggests that RISC is a ways down the road. A RISC chip wouldn't be binary compatable, and they wouldn't be extolling their binary compatability if they didn't intend to keep it that way. Here's to hoping they get a multi-processing 68040 out sometime soon... Don McGregor | If you're not having fun, you're doing mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu| something wrong.