Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color ships... Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 20:07:26 GMT References: <1991Mar13.173644.1850@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu's message of 13 Mar 91 17:36:44 GMT mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor) writes: >>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... This sort of talk is "fly by night" Binary compatibility was a big thing with SUN but was lost in the sparcblitz. Anyway, just to add some fuel to the speculation fire, I have it on some good authority that at least two machines at NeXThome have multiprocessor 68040 boards in them now. There is debate about whether this will be part of the new product announcement this fall. Hope it is. -- EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) NeXTmail: smithw@mathnx.math.byu.edu Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800