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In article <a-4Hjkfk6@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <1992Apr7.151703.9710@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
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>   I still think it's a stingy choice to only use four SIMM slots
>   for the cube Turbo board.  Since the primary choice, economically
>   speaking, would be 4 and 8 MB SIMMs at this time, the effective
>   max RAM is 32 MB, which is a (another) step backward for the new
>   board.
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>Yep.  I tried explaining this to some NeXT employees at NeXTworld.
>They came to the conclusion that there were more than 4 slots in the
>machines.  Stuff like this really make me want to go out and plunk

I don't see the problem with this.  Within a year or two, you are
going to be buying 16mb simms or bigger.  Someone also mentioned that
there are electrical/impedance/whatever constraints on the bus that
keep the number of simm slots down.

While we're on this subject, I also don't see the problem with
Nextstep on the 486.  People are saying the 486's are too expensive.
By the time NS486 is released and debugged, 486 machines are going to
cost practically nothing.

It seems to me that anticipating technology like this is a sound
strategy.

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