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- From: hfp@macadam.com (Hal Fox-Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec10.232445.6030@macadam.com>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 23:24:45 GMT
- References: <1g7r1cINNal@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: MACadam NeXT Sales and Support (415) 863-6222.
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- In article <1g7r1cINNal@agate.berkeley.edu> nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu >
- > The problem with the POWER chip is that Apple/IBM will probably
- > demand rather through controll. Go with the 88110, which has been
- described
- > as a perfect chip for // processing.
- >
- > However, this argument is moot. NeXT will continue to produce
- it's
- > on hardware, probably on Moto chips (68040/68060, maby 88110), and
- porting
- > it's OS to the bulk machines for those who bought the wrong computer in
- the
- > first place (Intel chips), Hopefully SPARC is next on their list.
- (Imagine
- > one of those multi-processor Sun SPARC's running NeXTstep?? I'm
- starting to
- > drooll.... :)
- >
- > For their OWN hardware, they won't use the Intel architecture. It
- > is not as good as the Motorola architecture they are using now, and for
- > NeXT, the chip itself isn't really going to matter that much. Also,
- NeXT
- > can't compete with the manufacturing costs against the Intel based
- clones.
- > The machines NeXT makes will always look better then the comporable
- Intel
- > machiens that NeXTstep is running on, simply because the NeXT hardware
- is
- > designed to work very well with NeXTstep. (I would not like to live
- without
- > MY DSP, what about you??)
- > --
- > Nicholas C. Weaver
- nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
- > It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying
- nothing.
-
-
- I'm hearing NeXT is bringing out an Intel based machine !!!
- Hal hfp@macadam.com
-