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4 total messages Started by Bill Romanowski Fri, 02 Oct 1992 04:46

#1152

Author: Bill Romanowski
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 04:46

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

So here we go...

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.

bill romanowski
vp of taking the garbage out on thursday before the truck gets here
prairie research

Re: Nitro

#1153

Author: Doug McClure
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 06:33

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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

Re: Nitro

#1159

Author: Gisli Ottarsson
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 13:36

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

Nitroglycerin??  --- I'd have thought Nitrous Oxide!

				Gisli

Re: Nitro

#1167

Author: Matthew Dillon
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 19:31

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>In article <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.
>
>So here we go...
>
>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.
>
>bill romanowski
>vp of taking the garbage out on thursday before the truck gets here
>prairie research

    The main problem with 3.0 is in paging from disk, a faster processor
    will not help at all in that area.

					-Matt

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