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From: pietrzak@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak)
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Subject: Re: MACH for a TT
Summary: The sins of PostScript
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Date: 29 Mar 91 19:30:20 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.083305.11888@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:

>Bleah. As you may recall, the original NeXT cube used a 25MHz 68030 and
>MACH. As you may also recall, the original NeXT cube ran at blazing slug-like
>speeds. 

'Course, you must remember that most of the time when people were showing off
the NeXT, Mach was pushing this little program called display postscript to
put absolutely anything at all on the screen.  I think this probably put
a damper on its top speed...


John Pietrzak