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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Unix on a 486 PC
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.182033.25476@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:20:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.114040.25069@newshost.unh.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.114040.25069@newshost.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul
- S Secinaro) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul28.230332.17564@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
- bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
- > > Anyone know when Nextstep 486 with Mach unix is due out and its
- approximate
- > > cost? I've heard the system requirements include 8-16 MB RAM, 120 MB hard
- > > drive (400 MB for the development kit), cd-rom drive, 32-bit video card
- for
- > > color graphics, local bus video recommended.
- >
- > I've heard that the release of NS486 has been delayed substantially -
- > well into '93 I believe. I'm not sure though.
- >
- > As for video, don't you have to buy some sort of proprietary card from
- > NeXT?
- >
-
- "NeXTstep 486", soon to be renamed "NeXTstep PC" or something like
- that (since they found it could be run OK on fast 386 machines),
- is due out in October or so.
-
- Here are some notes from the NeXT FAQs:
-
- *** Subject: O1. What preliminary information is there about NeXTstep 486?
-
- NeXTstep (or NEXTSTEP) 486 was announced in Jan, 92, and is
- expected to ship in Q3/Q4 of the year.
-
- Here are some notes from a user who spoke with the Product Manager
- at Dev Camp.
-
- - First port of NeXTStep
- - Available as a product through certain OEM's
- - Available as a shrink-wrap product
- - Run on any 386 or above processor, needs 486-33 for same
- Performance as 68040-25. 486-50 10-20% faster than
- NeXTStation Turbo; Support SX-chips
- - Avaialable for ISA and ESIA
- - Memory; 8-12 for monochrome, 16-24 for color
- - User 128megs, Developers 300meg
- - Support IDE, SCSI, SCSI-II
- - Distributed CD-ROM w/ bootfloppy
- - Features: All of NeXTStep 3.0
- - Sold as User & Developer Package
- - Can have a DOS and NeXT partition; Use either one
- - DOS & Microsoft Windows Capability?? - Not yet implemented
- - FAT Binary Capability - Combine Motorola & PC binaries
- into on file
- - NeXTStep will run on Notebooks; Special Release (after
- initial release) that will incorporate compatibility
- for Parallel Ports, Lower-Power SX chips, Basic VGA
- video-mode..
- - Support VGA (notebooks)-Monochrome,
- SVGA-Monochrome, JAWS-(16-bit Color,various res),
- Compaq Q-Vision-(16-bit Color)
-
- It is important to note one thing immediatly. The product
- will probably eventually drop the "486" from its name
- because it will run on 386 models, etc. Models by Intel,
- AMD, Cyrix, etc. Release Date? It was not talked about.
- However, on such topics as Sound for the 80x86 series, an
- engineer at NeXT is sound-happy so he went and got all the
- available soundcards for the PC and has/is writing
- drivers for them.
-
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
-