Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!helios!tamunix!n245bq From: n245bq@tamunix (Keith Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: <4274@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 18 Feb 90 21:24:59 GMT References: <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <4264@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: n245bq@tamunix.tamu.edu (Keith Perkins) Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 44 In article write: >Keith Perkins (n245bq@tamunix.tamu.edu) writes: > >All this is quite true. But as for the optical drive, I think the tech. >is not up to speed. Why would you need to put a hard disk is the cube >otherwise ? True, this is new tech. and is nice but it doesn't work >well. So there is nothing to be too exited about. Agreed, but it seems that the low speeds of the OD might one day surpass the highest speeds of the current Hard Drives (see the end of the Mac World OD article for more info). >You want to wait for the next NeXT. My memory is failing me here, but I >think we may not see it for a while. And with what ? Software version >0.69 ? There is clearly a problem of delays with NeXT. I also strongly >doubt that the 68040 is fast enough to match even remotely the entry >level Power Station. Actually, the software will probably be at least 1.0a if not 2.0, and while rumors abound there has been no official announcement for a release date, so the new NeXT cannot be delayed. The 68040 can run at 20 MIPS and 3.5 MFLOPS which currently beats both the SPARC chips and the 80486 by a fairly large margin (see Feb Byte, page 96A for more info on the 68040). >I have been told that AIX of IBM s... (is so bad) Why is this ? Are you >sure it is not compatible with other Unix like BSD ? The IBM AIX is a combination/hybrid of BSD 4.3 and System 5. This means that sometimes programs are compatible, and somtimes they're not. There was a review out in either MIPS or Byte which looked at AIX ver 3, and they were seriously impressed. I think that compatiblity could be it's only negative factor, and that with IBM backing AIX, it could go on to rival other UNIX standards. >I agree that NeXT sound chip is nice and IBM lacks it but I am sure they >can remedy to this especially with the power they boost. > > Jean-Marc De Baud > Carnegie Mellon > jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu Keith Perkins Texas A&M University n245bq@tamunix.tamu.edu