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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Subject: Re: New HP machines No News for NeXT??
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.140947.21215@potomac.ads.com>
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
References: <1991Jun1.003344.2109@potomac.ads.com> <28485109.67E3@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 14:09:47 GMT

In article <28485109.67E3@deneva.sdd.trw.com> thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen) writes:
>John T. Nelson writes
>  Shame it can't outperform a SPARC though :-)
>
>But, can you, using a 68040 NeXT, get more work done or write
>a comparable program faster than the guy using the SPARCstation?
>Do you feel better about the quality of your work?

Why bother asking when I quite clearly pointed out in the same posting
that the reason you buy a NeXT is the software environment.  Geeze, do
people on the net have a chip on their shoulders or something?

Its simply a shame that you don't get more speed out of the cube.
That might change in the future.  Maybe Mach can be tightened up a
bit.  I also pointed out in the same posting that it should be
possible to runn several CPU's on the NeXT.  This would be great
particularly if third-party vendors develop cheap plug-in boards.

>In a NeXT you have the 68040 master, the i860 'intellislave',
>and the 56001 savant. The C-Cube would have been (will be?) a
>savant. Because of this increase in the number of programmable
>components in the computer system, and that i860s and DSP
>chips will evolve in parallel to more standard CPU
>architectures, and that the distributed approach allows
>superior system performance, our excitement over a new hot
>chip is a bit cooler than years past.

Justifiably so too.  Chips will get faster but there is an upper limit
both theoretical and practical (you don't want heat-sinks the size of
a Winabago).  Multiprocessing is the way to go for cost-effective
horsepower.



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