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In article <1992Oct31.234604.21078@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
>Well, rumor has it that IBM, Sun, HP, and DEC will all be announcing new
>RISC workstations November 10th or so.  The DEC unit will supposedly do
>200 MIPS on a single 200 MHz Alpha CPU (twice the MIPS of an IBM 3090/600J
>mainframe!).  Assuming it comes in under $20,000 it would hit NeXT's target
>ratio of $100 per MIP.
>
>If so, NeXT will have to respond promptly with some announcements of their
>own to avoid the appearance of being behind in development.  Two or four
>50 MHz 88110's should compete nicely; we'll have to wait and see if that's
>what NeXT actually does.

I'm actually quite worried about Nov. 10th. One of the machines Sun will
release is a Tsunami (sp?) based SPARC which delivers 28 SpecMarks for
less thatn $6k. Even though OpenWindows SUCKS, it's hard to justify
NeXT's 16 Specmark, no bus system for $8k.

The new HP will offer even better MIPS/$.

My impression of NeXT is that they aren't even close to releasing any
type of RISC machine. I believe that the vast majority of their efforts
have gone into NS486. It seems that NeXT is targeting the PC market
rather than take on the Workstation market. Granted, the line between
is rather blurred, but if NeXT is going to compete with Sun, SGI and HP 
they better get a RISC box fast.

Is NeXT trying to be the NeXT Microsoft?

As far as Intel CPUs go, aren't they the ones that expect mulitiple-byte
data to have bytes swaped? - Yuck.

Eric