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In <3008@news.cerf.net> billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:

>Well I might as well be the first to initiate a useless
>thread about the maybe new, maybe not "nitro" box.

Can I play too?

>I suspect that you could barely feel the diff in speed
>from 33 to 40Mhz (if at all). I suspect the motivation is
>more marketing glycerin than engineering nitro.

Well, quite possible.  But also remember 3.0!  I'd imagine that the
small increase in speed (plus the nbuf idea) might just compensate for
3.0's slowness and boost the machine back to 2.x operating speeds.
Every extra ounce of power can help.

Nuther idea.  I'd imagine that there are a LOT of folks out there with
25Mhz machines that would upgrade (read: sell and buy new machine) if
only the improvement was a bit larger than 25->33.

And one last one.  Maybe NeXT has decided that folks see them as being
too "static" in their machine changes.  After all, the '040 machines
came out 2 years ago, and the Turbo's this past spring.  But that's
not that much of a product change, especially when you look at a lot
of companies who come out with new machines every other 6 months or
so.  Possibly NeXT is going for a bit more dynamic and fast moving
look?

-doug