Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Subject: Re: NeXT prototype with Motorola 40mhz 88110 RISC CPU! Message-ID: <1991Jun12.175901.18555@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA References: <676698423wkn3369@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 17:59:01 GMT Lines: 18 smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: > However, something may be fishy with the infoworld article. >The Mips number is a bit low I think. Unless NeXT put on the >brakes to keep costs down somewhere. There was some question about >putting in on board color support instead of (as a lower cost >option) the ND board for cubes. Yes, I heard the same rumour [about six months ago], that they would effectively incorporate NeXT Dimension's capabilities onto the motherboard of their 88110 machines [by trashing Intel's 860 and going with the 96002]. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be? You'd be in the hospital, or in-firm-ary..." F. Dagg