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From: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PaRITY (was NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !)
Keywords: Memory,errors,parity
Message-ID: <1868@eos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 21:32:21 GMT
References: <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <7493@well.UUCP> <Nov.2.10.35.53.1988.1589@hardees.rutgers.edu> <31812@bbn.COM> <17548@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <17548@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> casey@cs.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) writes:
>
>  Personally, I don't think that it's too late to get some minor
>redesigns into the machine before it hits the floor next Spring.  I think
>
>  Other items might be:
>
>	o Going with the Sony optical disk instead of the Canon because
>	  of its higher performance and conformance to ANSI standards
>	  (anyone have any data on the storage capacity of the Sony
>	  disk?).

	This would not be minor.  One of the "mainframe" VLSI chips serves 
	as a disk controller for the op drive.  This is why NeXT can sell the 
	WHOLE cube for a couple thousand $ more the the Sony Drive.  
	( sony drive 4 or 5 thousand  :  Cube 6500 )
	{ This info comes from a NeXT Rep I heard last Wed. at Stanford }

	Part of being on the frontier means you get arrows in your back.

>	o Putting a better input A/D system on it, say 16 bits, so we can
>	  do sound sampling for use in synthesis projects (I have
>	  absolutely no objects to the voice-mail, or any other voice
>	  communication software truncating this down to 8 bits to save
>	  on storage).

	Suppositly, there are boxes coming which will attach to the DSP port
	on the board for doing "good" sound from third parties. These will
	probably show up next spring or summer.


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