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NeXT Ships its "Turbo" NeXTcube On Time
Workstation Powered by 33MHz 68040 Chip


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 7, 1992  - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced
that it has begun shipments of its 33 megahertz (MHz) 68040-powered
NeXTcube Turbo workstation.

NeXTcube Turbo, along with NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTstation Color Turbo,
were introduced in January at the first NeXTWORLD Expo, held in San
Francisco. The two versions of NeXTstation began shipping immediately,
with an early Q2 shipment date given for NeXTcube Turbo.

All of the new workstations are built around the Motorola 68040
processor running at 33MHz and include two newly designed NeXT custom
chips. Previous NeXT workstations were based on the 25MHz version of
the 68040.

The new Turbo machines are rated at 25 MIPS (million instructions per
second), compared to slightly more than 18 MIPS for the 25MHz versions.
At the same time, NeXT has reduced the prices on its most popular
configurations by an average of 10 percent compared to last year's
configurations.  NeXTcube Turbo pricing is unchanged from current
NeXTcube pricing.

Five configurations of NeXTcube Turbo are now available directly from
NeXT or through NeXT's network of value-added resellers, system
integrators, campus resellers and authorized retail outlets.  Prices
begin at $- for a NeXTcube Turbo with 16MB of internal memory,
a 2.88MB internal floppy disk drive and a 400MB internal hard disk
drive.  NeXTcube Turbo systems can be configured with up to 32MB of
DRAM (they will be able to support 128MB when 16MB parts are available)
and 2.8GB of hard disk drive storage space.

The NeXTcube Turbo also supports 3 NeXTbus expansion slots, which
provide expansion flexibility for such add-in products as NeXT's
NeXTdimension 32-bit-per-pixel color/video board.  Due to low customer
demand, the new NeXTcube Turbo no longer supports NeXT's internal optical
disk drive introduced more than four years ago, but is compatible with
various third party external SCSI based optical disk drives currently
available.

NeXT Computer, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets professional
workstations based on the revolutionary NeXTSTEP object-oriented
system software.  NeXT computers are used by medium and large
organizations to develop and deploy mission-critical custom
applications, which can run alongside a robust suite of advanced
productivity applications.  NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake
Drive, Redwood City, California, 94063.  

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