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From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Message-ID: <10346@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Oct 88 15:19:26 GMT
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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:
>>In article <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
		[some text deleted]
>>>								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,
>
The chip is the Motorola DSP56000. It is a high speed 96 bit Floating Point
processor optimized for Digital Signal Processing applications 
(ie. FFT's, Digital Filters, Waveform Generation, etc.)

                                        R. Tim Coslet

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