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

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From: Joel Spolsky
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 19:12

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In article <1988Oct13.164708.10064@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
| In article <360@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
| | ... The NuBus is run at 25 MHz (Jobs compared it to a 10 MHz NuBus,
| | is this what the Mac II uses?)....
| 
| Probably, since that's what a NuBus is supposed to run at.  (At least
| according to the spec I have, which is admittedly old.)  Sigh, Yet Another
| New And Improved And Faster And Better (and incompatible) Bus.

Well, the SCSI bus is compatible with Macintoshes. The fast NuBus will
allow multiprocessor enviroments quite comfortably. The Byte article
spoke of OS support (ultimately) for assigning threads (lightweight
processes) to different processors.

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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 19:12:59 GMT
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