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Article #34654Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
From: R_Tim_Coslet
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1988 15:19
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1988 15:19
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In article <1693@nunki.usc.edu>
rjung@sal45.usc.edu (Robert allen Jung) Writes:
>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:
[some text deleted]
>>> 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,
>
The chip is the Motorola DSP56000. It is a high speed 96 bit Floating Point
processor optimized for Digital Signal Processing applications
(ie. FFT's, Digital Filters, Waveform Generation, etc.)
R. Tim Coslet
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