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From: arwall@athena.mit.edu (Chumley Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <7472@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 88 16:22:45 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)

In article <635@ardent.UUCP>, kmw@ardent (Ken Wallich) writes:

>
>One omission I noticed was that there was no mention of serial ports, or
>an integral modem.  I guess I have to hook it up via ethernet to a box that 
>*does* have serial ports (like perhaps, a Mac? :-) if I want to hook up my 
>Telebits to it?  Also there were no specs given on how 'fast' the optical 
>drive is.  I've heard rumors of a 28ms average access time, which is ok, 
>but not all that quick, and no mention of transfer rates, etc.  It would 
>be a waste to not have a screeming drive on a 4mb/sec SCSI.

I've been told that with the 10 MIPS DSP you only need software to get
9600 baud performance as is.
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