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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: NeXT with an '040
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Date: 26 Mar 89 03:59:25 GMT
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> When will NeXT announce their '040 version? Looking
>at the NeXT's system design in Byte a while ago it's pretty obvious
>that that's what they designed it for,

Not being a hardware engineer, how obvious is it? If so, is that a
good argument to wait buying NeXt? Is anything known about the performance
leap of the 68040, and---what's more important to me---the performance
leap of its accompanying floating point processor?

Thanks for any info ...

/ivo