mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) (10/12/88)
If there is an announcement today, can someone please post it somewhere, so that all of us impatient folks can see what is what? thanks, Dave Dave "mr question" McIntyre | "....say you're thinking about a plate home : 518-276-5842 | of shrimp.....and someone says to office : 518-276-8633 | you `plate,' or `shrimp'......" mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu |
maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (10/13/88)
In article <1392@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
\If there is an announcement today, can someone please post it
\somewhere, so that all of us impatient folks can see what is
\what?
Allright, I announce that most people don't have a clue what you're trying to
say. Clarification?
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Hippic sport: |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam:
a contradiction in terms.|maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maarttim@crackle.amd.com (Tim Olson) (10/13/88)
In article <1392@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes: | If there is an announcement today, can someone please post it | somewhere, so that all of us impatient folks can see what is | what? I haven't seen another posting yet, so here it is: The next box is a black cube, about 1ft square. Inside, it has 5 NuBUS slots, one of which is populated with the main processor card. It holds: 68030 @ 25MHz FP coprocessor (68882?) DSP chip 8MB memory (expandable to 16) Custom processors for peripheral control (gate arrays?) The implication here is that since the processor is on a standard card, more than one can exist in the system for multiprocessing. This matches with the OS, which is the MACH kernel and BSD4.3. On top of MACH is something called "Next STep", which is their presentation interface (standardized "look and feel") that has been licenced to IBM. This greatly simplifies the building of applications, which sit on top of Next Step. Back to hardware, The mass storage is a single, 250MB *optical* (yes, as in CD-like) drive, with optional SCSI drives available (300MB, 600MB). The display is a mega-pixel (1024x1024) monochrome monitor which runs display Postscript (quite fast, too!). A 400dpi laser printer will also be available. Software included: MACH Next Step lisp (Franz, I think) Mathematica WriteNow word processor Webster's dictionary and Thesaurus works of Shakespeare Oxford Quotations On-line Unix and Next Manuals (probably some others) Price: $6500 for all of the above, excluding the laserprinter, which is $2000. Availability: Version 0.8 ships to developers this month, with 0.9 shipping first quarter next year. General shipping begins second quarter. Disclaimer: I got this information from someone who just got back from the show (and was greatly impressed!) By the way, one of the things that Jobs has done to the user interface is to get rid of the trash can. In its place is a "Black Hole" icon, which sucks up anything that is moved over it! -- Tim Olson Advanced Micro Devices (tim@crackle.amd.com)
mcintyre@rpics (David McIntyre) (10/13/88)
In article <1516@piraat.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: >In article <1392@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes: >\If there is an announcement today, can someone please post it >\somewhere, so that all of us impatient folks can see what is >\what? > >Allright, I announce that most people don't have a clue what you're trying to >say. Clarification? Ok, I'm sorry. I am getting excited. I was talking about the NeXt (NeXT ?) machine. These things alter my typing abilities. -Dave Dave "mr question" McIntyre | "....say you're thinking about a plate home : 518-276-5842 | of shrimp.....and someone says to office : 518-276-8633 | you `plate,' or `shrimp'......" mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu |