Re: NeXT ...

[Brad Miller <miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU>]

    Date: Wed, 19 Oct 88 10:38:44 EDT
    From: buff%pravda@gatech.edu (Richard Billington)

    I don't suppose that Symbolics has any ideas about the
    three NuBus slots inside that black cube. Seeing as the
    NeXT comes with 8 Mb of memory already, Symbolics would
    have to add even less than they do for MacII. Also, the
    NuBus supposedly runs 2.5 times as fast as a MacII.

Some side issues: it's an open question whether the NeXT really supports a
nubus at all, since nubus is TTL and the NeXT bus is CMOS.

Also note: their optical disk is WAY too slow for paging or swapping; adding
real disk drives the cost up again to the point it may not be worth much
over a Mac II or some impending 68030 machines. Also, their display uses
Postscript instead of X, implying lots of software just won't work;
Symbolics (and TI for that matter) have both announced they will be making
their software X compatible, implying they would have to have a "machine
dependant" version...

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Brad Miller		U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
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