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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (short!)
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Date: 13 Oct 88 13:26:32 GMT
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In article <360@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
[NeWS news.  Thanks!]
>The machine is based on the Motorola 68030 with a 68882 floating point
>chip as well as a 56001 DSP chip, all running at 25 MHz. 
All on the CPU board?

>The entire CPU board consists of 45 chips ...
>ethernet, sound processors (I assume the DSP and A/D-D/A converters) and..
>the NuBus. The NuBus is run at 25 MHz (Jobs compared it to a 10 MHz NuBus,
>The CPU box has 4 slots, 1 is used by the CPU board, the others were empty...
>There are 12 I/O processors total.

Does this mean that all of the circuitry is on NuBUS cards, or did they
put some stuff on the motherboard, leaving the CPU and DSP on the backplane?
What is really on the CPU board (030, 882, and 1M memory?)
How much memory is in the base configuration?
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