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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT with an '040
Message-ID: <331@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 89 20:15:16 GMT
References: <2460@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <2460@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>> 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?

I don't know, to me it seems very obvious .... but I wouldn't wait
my guess is that '040s will not be available in quantity at least
'till the end of the year (if you read the press you will see that
the 88k is only now becoming available in quantity even though
it was announced a long time ago). As far as performance of
the '040 etc I would wait untill it is announced (then read
comp.arch for the afterward arguments .... :-)

	Paul


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