Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1765 comp.os.misc:555 comp.misc:3748 comp.arch:6563 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: <40380@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 19:12:59 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <1988Oct13.164708.10064@utzoo.uucp> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 19 In article <1988Oct13.164708.10064@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: | In article <360@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes: | | ... The NuBus is run at 25 MHz (Jobs compared it to a 10 MHz NuBus, | | is this what the Mac II uses?).... | | Probably, since that's what a NuBus is supposed to run at. (At least | according to the spec I have, which is admittedly old.) Sigh, Yet Another | New And Improved And Faster And Better (and incompatible) Bus. Well, the SCSI bus is compatible with Macintoshes. The fast NuBus will allow multiprocessor enviroments quite comfortably. The Byte article spoke of OS support (ultimately) for assigning threads (lightweight processes) to different processors. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include