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Article #65Re: Is the cube a white elephant?
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 20:18
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 20:18
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In article <1992Oct29.084638.17149@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: > So, if you get a 25MHz Cube you can expect to be able to > upgrade it to a 33MHz 040 and maybe a faster Motorola > processor. This is the official upgrade route, Bah ha ha! There is no official upgrade to the NeXTcube Turbo board - you have to try and get a NeXT service provider to order one as a spare part! There is also no official NeXTstation upgrade program either! > although I have no doubt that people will provide > altenatives, and as an example the MO went away from NeXT ( > mistake the way they did it, The Spherical Solutions hack to allow extra CPU boards in a NeXTcube is about the best you can hope for, and there are still cooling concerns about loaded cubes. -- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy" New Haven, CT nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Is the cube a white elephant? Message-ID: <1992Oct29.201838.13120@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobi.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Oct29.084638.17149@utstat.uucp> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 20:18:38 GMT Lines: 26