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From: hs0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hugh Brinkley Sprunt)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: NeXT Rumors...
Message-ID: <oW2U3Xy00UidYUw0HP@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 88 17:35:31 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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    Here is a brief summary of the responses to my question about
    the workstation from NeXT:
    
    Two workstations will be offered.  One has a gray-scale graphics
    system, 4Meg RAM, 40Meg disk, and a price of $5000 (discounted
    to $3000 for educational institutions).  The other has color
    graphics, 8Meg RAM, 200Meg disk, and a price of $9000 ($6000
    discount).  Both displays are 1280x960.  The workstation box
    is rumored to be black.  An inhouse-developed DislpayPostscript
    will be available.  The bus is a proprietary bus.  Other items
    include a 1.44Meg 3.5 inch floppy, a fax modem, ethernet, scsi
    port with DMA, serial and parallel ports, a stereo sound
    processor (a DSP chip from Motorola), a midi port, a Un*x O/S
    with many Mac-style extensions, and an optional Pixar graphics
    coprocessor.  These workstations are due to be released 1st
    quarter 1988.

    I also heard that Sun is working on a "NeXT-KILLER".

    It looks like reasonably-priced (i.e. about the cost of a fully-
    loaded PC), high-performance, Unix-based workstations are almost
    here.
        
    Note that I have no "official" source for any of this
    information and NONE of it may actually be true.

    Thanks to all who responded.

    Brink