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Article #10698Re: ACE (Was Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?)
From: Edward McClanahan
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 22:40
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 22:40
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peter da silva writes: > The NeXT and the Amiga 3000UX have the same problem here: they're 68000 > based, so you won't expect any outstanding improvements in the next few > years. Even if NeXT and Commodore make like Sun and switch to RISC processors > your existing machine is likely to be left behind. Though the asynchronous > bus on the Amiga means that a RISC coprocessor board would be quite a > workable compromise. The NeXT bus is much slower, more designed as a > peripheral bus instead of a general backplane like the Amiga's. Is this true? I understand that NeXT uses a 25MHz NuBus (2.5 times the NuBus used in the Mac II series). Besides, a RISC coprocessor board would primarily access on(its)board memory and not be limited by bus speed. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Edward McClanahan Hewlett Packard Company -or- edwardm@cup.hp.com Mail Stop 42UN 11000 Wolfe Road Phone: (480)447-5651 Cupertino, CA 95014 Fax: (408)447-5039
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