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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT to go with 88K (?)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 22:57:25 GMT
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In article <151480@pyramid.pyramid.com> tsych@pyrthoth.pyramid.com (Terry Sych @ Pyramid Technology Corp.) writes:

   from San Jose (CA) Mercury News (Bits & Bytes) 4/10/91:

   "... the company is doing something concrete to build up its 
   sales.  A Next source said company engineers are hard at work
   on the new Next machine, which will be based on Motorola's
   yet unannounced 88110 RISC microprocessor.  The good news
   is the new computer will be a screamer in the $8,000 to
   $10,000 range.  The bad news: Software written for the
   current Nexts won't run on the new one, since they use another
   Motorola microprocessor family.  A simplified software
   conversion program is planned, however."

What is the chip in the new Data General Aviions?  Moto. has made some
grandiose claims about what they are going to do with the Motorola
line, but that is a couple of years down the road.  I hope NeXT is
getting a good deal because MIPSs processors are better.  They give
the performance results that they claim.

-Mike