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From: moreno@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: NeXT Rumors...
Message-ID: <11211@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 88 18:40:49 GMT
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Reply-To: moreno@CS.UCLA.EDU (Jaime Moreno)
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This is for a friend who can't get his machine to post!!
Please reply to him.

In article <oW2U3Xy00UidYUw0HP@andrew.cmu.edu> hs0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hugh Brinkley Sprunt) writes:
>
>    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.
>

That does not say much about the performance of both machines.
Here are a few questions that you may have an answer to:

	-What kind of processor do they use (running at ? MHz)?
	-I assume that they use a cache, if so what's its size 
	 and speed (any wait states?).
	-Any performance numbers? MIPS, benchmarks?
	-Can you add a floating point coprocessor?

					Marc Tremblay
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