🚀 go-pugleaf

Gerben Wierda writes
> 
> Poor NeXT... Any new announcement hurts current sales. I think they hoped to
> keep this secret until 8/92. It all depends on price strategy for NRW and
> Turbo machines of course.
> 
> It is good for NeXT that the other decisions haven't leaked yet ... ;-)

Of course, NeXT could secretly feed the rumor mill with prices in the  
$15000-20000 range, then offically announce it with an SRP under $10000.

Anyway, I don't think there are any secrets to be kept.  Everyone else seems to  
be headed toward RISC.  It's only natural to assume that NeXT will, too.   
Motorola's RISC seems like a good guess, I think, since Steve Jobs and Motorola  
have been pretty good business partners in the past with the 68K line.

My question is this: is the 88K really that fast?  Does Motorola really know  
something about RISC that Sun doesn't?  How does Motorola get 75+ MIPS out of  
their RISC when Sun is working pretty hard to squeeze 30 out of SPARC?  I'm not  
a processor freak, so I don't really know about this stuff.  Can someone  
enlighten me?

Thanks,

John Coppinger