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In article <1992Dec14.165125.4207@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>They wouldn't be competing with clones.  A NeXT box based on Pentium
>would be very different from a Pentium PC.  Just as Amigas,
>Macintoshes, and NeXT's are all different.  Sequent and Scitex put out
>boxes with 486's in them and they don't compete at all with PC's.

	OTOH, these boxes would be running NS486, right?  What 
	"features" could NeXT put into these machines to take them
	out of the (*fierce*)Intel-box competition?  A DSP?  
	There are DSP cards now and coming.  Sound?  Same.  Video?
	Frankly, there are already better alternatives to the NeXT
	video (if the current display standard and/or the fiasco
	with the NeXTDimension are any example).  HD floppy drives??
 
	They could add things, sure, but if they radically changed
	the architecture, they would be breaking compatibility--and
	who wants to buy an Intel box if it's too incompatible
	to run anything but NS--might as well buy a slab.
 


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