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Article #33241Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
From: Chumley Wood
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 16:22
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 16:22
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In article <635@ardent.UUCP>, kmw@ardent (Ken Wallich) writes: > >One omission I noticed was that there was no mention of serial ports, or >an integral modem. I guess I have to hook it up via ethernet to a box that >*does* have serial ports (like perhaps, a Mac? :-) if I want to hook up my >Telebits to it? Also there were no specs given on how 'fast' the optical >drive is. I've heard rumors of a 28ms average access time, which is ok, >but not all that quick, and no mention of transfer rates, etc. It would >be a waste to not have a screeming drive on a 4mb/sec SCSI. I've been told that with the 10 MIPS DSP you only need software to get 9600 baud performance as is. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Anders Wallgren Back by popular demand: | | arwall@athena.mit.edu Bush-Noriega '88 - A Crack Team! |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!arwall@athena.mit.edu From: arwall@athena.mit.edu (Chumley Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting) Message-ID: <7472@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 14 Oct 88 16:22:45 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: arwall@athena.mit.edu (Chumley Wood) Organization: Massatech Instichusetts of Tutenology Lines: 17 In-reply-to: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)