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Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (short!)

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 17:56
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In article <3292@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>Does this mean that all of the circuitry is on NuBUS cards, or did they
>put some stuff on the motherboard, leaving the CPU and DSP on the backplane?

There's no motherboard, unless you count the first CPU card as a
motherboard.  Everything plugs into the NuBus, not into the CPU card.

>What is really on the CPU board (030, 882, and 1M memory?)

Everything is on the one card.

>How much memory is in the base configuration?

8Mb.
-=-
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