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From: oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard Oneill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT to go with 88K (?)
Summary: What are the implications ?
Keywords: NeXT 88K Rumour
Message-ID: <2473@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 17:29:06 GMT
References: <151480@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1991Apr10.215125.28932@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: oneill@phoenix.UUCP (Richard Oneill)
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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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:
>
>[...]  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.  

i'm probably opening a can of worms here, but anyone care to comment on
the ramifications of this decision. not with regard to *what* risc processor
they have chosen, but just the fact that they are going to be changing
processor architecture at all.

does this mean that anyone buying a 68040 next today is buying something
that will very soon be obsolete. in my department we will soon be throwing
out sun3's because aparrently sun isn't keen on supporting them any more.
is this going to happen with next and, if so, after how long.

what about software? are software houses going to be keen on shipping two
versions of their products for the next, one for the 68k, one for 88k.

thoughts anyone ?

	Richard.


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