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From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Message-ID: <17520@gatech.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 88 04:31:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
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In article <1693@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal45.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung) writes:
>In article <17516@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>
>  Does Postscript == "Better graphics"? The NeXT is still in B&W only, if I
>remember right.
>

No...PostScript == Better Text and printer support.  Anything presented on the
screen can be sent to the printer in the same form.  Perfect WYSIWYG.  Only
difference is that the screen is 94 dpi and the printer is 400 (300 draft) dpi.
Postcript can do very good graphics, but I am not qualified to compare it to
the Atari machine.

>
>  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?
>

The 56001 is a digital signal processor from Motorola.  Essentially, that means
it is a VERY fast floating point chip.  NeXT intends to use the chip for
a modem, voice input and output, and music synthesis.

I do not know what Ataris intentions are, though they would likely be the same.

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

Hopefully your school will get some.  Unfortunately, this is the kind of 
question that, if you have to ask, it probably won't do you any good.
The NeXT machine was concieved to fire the imagination and spark creativity
in all academic discaplines (not just CS/EE). It wasn't built to be a 
terminal.

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