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In article <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>This week's Info World, "Reports from the Field" claims that NeXT has
>terminated the dual 88110 NRW and will go with the P5 (Pentium) from
>Intel in future machines.
>
>This sucks for a few reasons:
>1. We won't have a faster NeXT till the P5 ships.
>2. We're stuck with Intel.
>3. The NRW will be AS FAST AS A HIGH-END CLONE.

This last item is not neccesarily true.  Let's suppose NeXT goes with
the P5.  Remember that the NeXT OS, Mach, already has support for
multiprocessor systems.  Doesn't the P5 have enhanced support for
working in multiprocessor systems?  Can you imagine a four processor
P5 system, with one processor devoted to a realtime Display PostScript
environment, another devoted to a realtime sound server (including a
port pin-compatible with the current DSP port), and two more for
general purpose CPU tasks?  NeXT could put out a wide variety of
systems simply by changing the number of processors.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu