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From: rjung@sal45.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Summary: Same Atari 68030 chip?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 14:59:23 GMT
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In article <17516@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
>>	           it also offers better graphics capabilities.  
>Perhaps...I would not know.  

  Does Postscript == "Better graphics"? The NeXT is still in B&W only, if I
remember right.

>>								However,
>>the NeXT machine offers some really nice things that the AWS doesn't, and
>>I'm inclined to feel that, feature-for-feature, the NeXT machine comes
>>out on top.

  Just to drop in a related note: I saw a quick glance of a rumor that the
Atari 68030 box will use the same "50000"(?) chip that's in the NeXT -- Anyone
know (ha!) if this is true, or what the heck a 50000 chip is in the first
place?

  Throwing more gas on the flames of speculation,

						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. If I can't buy it for my own use, what good does it do me?  B-)

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