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From: crum@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Gary Crum)
Subject: Re: Power Up, Preferences and 2.1
In-Reply-To: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU's message of 23 Apr 91 07:33:44 GMT
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Date: 23 Apr 91 22:14:40

In article <1991Apr21.131511.28471@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu
	(Joe Freeman) writes:
>The NeXTStation Color machines have a new alarm clock chip.  It allows 

Aha!  And, the '040 CPUs in NeXTstation color systems use RAM memory
that is different from that used by other NeXT '040 systems -- the same
kind of memory that the NeXTdimension requires to go with its i860.
(Does anyone know of 3rd-party sources for 4M SIMMs of this special type?
It's not the same type of SIMMS that Mac IIfx systems require, is it?)

It sounds like the NeXTstation Color is currently the best NeXT computer
to use as a "server", although machines from other vendors can of course
be used as disk (NFS) servers.  (There are problems with NFS between NeXT
and SiliconGraphics systems, however, as of NeXT 2.0 and IRIX 3.3 anyway.)

No wonder it is rumored that the price of the NeXTstation Color
(N1200) will be increasing $1000 (list) on 10-May.

Has anyone seen non-graphics performance comparisons of NeXTstation
Color systems with other NeXT '040 computers?

Maybe the next batch of product announcements will rectify this anomaly.

Gary