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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT generation of Macs
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Date: 2 Oct 88 13:57:56 GMT
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In article <744@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>the 68030.  I don't know any details, except that it's supposed to
>support 12 users.  My guess is that this also entails having some new
>bitmapped terminals (on Appletalk?) to communicate with the machine;
Appletalk would get hopelessly saturated, wouldn't it?
 
My guess would be multiple display cards and ADB mice and keyboards, and
hopefully a 33Mhz (or faster) '030 to spread cycles around.  This would amount
to about 5-6 times a 7.6Mhz Mac, so I'd feel a little bit uncomfortable 
putting 12 users on it, unless each display card has a TMS 34020 or something 
that can reduce bus bandwidth and CPU time to get those pixels out.

Maybe a special display card with a little Mac on it would do the
trick. (68000 with ~1M 'local' memory, ADB interface, and display board.)

I'd think companies would rather put a networked Mac on each desk than
have my whole workgroup dependent on a large, expensive, central resource.

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