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Article #34589Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
From: Robert allen Jung
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 14:59
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 14:59
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In article <17516@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
>> it also offers better graphics capabilities.
>Perhaps...I would not know.
Does Postscript == "Better graphics"? The NeXT is still in B&W only, if I
remember right.
>> However,
>>the NeXT machine offers some really nice things that the AWS doesn't, and
>>I'm inclined to feel that, feature-for-feature, the NeXT machine comes
>>out on top.
Just to drop in a related note: I saw a quick glance of a rumor that the
Atari 68030 box will use the same "50000"(?) chip that's in the NeXT -- Anyone
know (ha!) if this is true, or what the heck a 50000 chip is in the first
place?
Throwing more gas on the flames of speculation,
--R.J.
B-)
P.S. If I can't buy it for my own use, what good does it do me? B-)
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