Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: <1564@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 90 23:36:46 GMT References: <8059@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1550@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron Organization: IBM-Austin, AWD Lines: 37 In article <8059@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, dandb@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Dean Rubine) writes: |>In <1550@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) replies: |>>Remeber you got SCSI support and a micro-channel bus, so adding the |>>DSP will be no problem. |> |>To me, the great thing about the NeXT was that it came with all |>sorts of stuff as standard equipment. As a developer, I'll be much |>more tempted to write applications which use the NeXT sound chip, |>since I know there will be one on every machine. I have to agree with you here. Raising the lowest common denominator does indeed make it easier on the developers to use things suchs as the DSP. Unfortunately, there are few main stream applications that require the DSP these days. You might say in that regard that we are not a leader in pushing this type of technology, but you would also have to see our flip side of why should we force people to pay for a DSP when chances are that they won't need it. I had to say voice mail in this day and age can't really cut it as a great mainstream application though it is good for annotations due the the size of digitized sound files. Also consider the DSP as just a quick 24(?)-bit floating point processor and compare our MFLOPS rating (32-bit). When DSP applications become mainstream, as have intensive floating point applications, you will see DSP standard in everyones' machines. As for the 68040, still not as fast as our box (Interger or Floating point). Hopefully, IBM (I have no idea what our exact plans are in this regard except that we have made the announcement that we are commited to it) will be one of the leaders in bringing out the OSF/1/2 OS with a MACH kernel and (golly gee) AIX interface. Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + + last resort woan@peyote.cactus.org +