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From: christ@tybalt.caltech.edu (Christian L. Keppenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: kiloflops
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Date: 8 May 89 04:21:16 GMT
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it was tough for me to decide whether to buy a NeXT or the new sparcstation 1
from Sun. now that i have placed an order for the former, i would like to
know whether it might ever be able to perform honorably when compared tto
the latter. the guys from Sun claim that their new child can compute at
1.5 mflops. has anyone got the figures for the NeXT machine? or, if not,
for another 25 mhz 68030/68882 machine?
it wouls be nice if we could count on some floating point accelarators
to be marketted in the near future. maybe there is already something available
 or under development. has anyone heard of anything concerning this?

please excuse my uncertain english

christian

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