Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 15:36:53 GMT References: <281D0613.26690@orion.oac.uci.edu> <=vzgn2@rpi.edu> <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 3 May 91 20:05:46 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: Unless nExt is making 30 mip custom chips, I think every system will soon have 50 mip chips (that is if they have enough expansion slots; I would hate to have to throw away a computer just because it has no expansion slots). NeXT doesn't make microprocessors they buy them from Motorola. You know, the company that makes the CPU for the Amiga. The current NeXTstation(slab only) costs ~$2500 with the educational discount. How much do you think it's going to cost you to upgrade your Amiga 3000 to the 68040? And in three years, how much will it cost you to upgrade it again to the 68050, or some other CPU? Now let's not forget those awesome graphics chips. Commodore will surely have something better by then, and those custom chips are expensive to develop. How much will it cost to upgrade to the new graphics chips? So when will it be released? Sounds like you'll be waiting a long time! I remember the wait for the nExt cpu's the first time around... It took 4 months for NeXT to get there machines out after they were announce. HP customers waited almost a year because they announced their machines last June. In all probability, the next generation of NeXTs will contain the NeXT generation 88K. I'll leave it up to you to determine how good that chip will be. -Mike Any of you guys watch Star Trek the NeXT Generation?