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Article #10518Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
From: umh
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 23:11
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 23:11
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In article <1991Apr29.164102.11221@kithrup.COM>, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > A four- or five-fold performance increase at roughly the same price. > > Meanwhile, an R4000 machine, based on everything I've seen and heard, should > run for about $10k or so (monochrome, I'm sure) and should be quite speedy. A MIPS rep today told me to expect ACE machines (the compaq/microsoft etc group) at $2K to $5K in Q2 92.Of course these will be no cache except the 8K+8K on the R4000, and crippled in various other ways to be as cheap as possible, but will presumably still be far above PC/Mac/Amiga performance. Maynard Handley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!umh From: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <1991Apr30.191117.4373@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 30 Apr 91 19:11:17 EDT References: <11399@uwm.edu> <JH_ABJF@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991Apr29.164102.11221@kithrup.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: CIT, Cornell University Lines: 13