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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.125034.22432@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:50:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.165125.4207@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- >They wouldn't be competing with clones. A NeXT box based on Pentium
- >would be very different from a Pentium PC. Just as Amigas,
- >Macintoshes, and NeXT's are all different. Sequent and Scitex put out
- >boxes with 486's in them and they don't compete at all with PC's.
-
- OTOH, these boxes would be running NS486, right? What
- "features" could NeXT put into these machines to take them
- out of the (*fierce*)Intel-box competition? A DSP?
- There are DSP cards now and coming. Sound? Same. Video?
- Frankly, there are already better alternatives to the NeXT
- video (if the current display standard and/or the fiasco
- with the NeXTDimension are any example). HD floppy drives??
-
- They could add things, sure, but if they radically changed
- the architecture, they would be breaking compatibility--and
- who wants to buy an Intel box if it's too incompatible
- to run anything but NS--might as well buy a slab.
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