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From: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (short!)
Message-ID: <362@elan.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 17:21:06 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <3292@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Followup-To: comp.sys.misc
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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In article <3292@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>In article <360@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
>>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?

>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?

Right now *everything* is on the one board. The '030, '882, and the 56001
as well all of the memory. The base system that Jobs spoke of had 8 MB
of memory, expandable to 16 MB.

It didn't look like the machine was using the NuBus for anything except
maybe the optical drive, unless that is SCSI. He mentioned something like
the extra slots being for whatever they didn't think of. I am wondering
if their version of MACH will support three more CPU boards in those slots
running in parallel...
-- 
Jeff Lo
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