wallace%fmi.ch@RELAY.CS.NET (Andrew Wallace) (11/04/88)
Here are the replies I have received so far about the availability of The Cube.
Andrew.
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As reported by Computerworld (Oct.17), the Next would ship the workstation
this month (Nov.) to universities. Some people have the concerns on (I) the
heart of the workstation does not use RISC architecture which would offer
better price/performance, and (II) the X window is not incorporated into
the system.
Keyuan Jiang, Vanderbilit Univ. U.S.A.
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The computer should be available to developers very soon, but will not be
sold to the general client until next spring. But a lot of people are thinking
that it even be later. I am also interested in acquiring it, I have heard
from IntelliGenetics that they have been accepted as official NeXT developers,
which mean they could get a machine very soon; as they are distributing my
analysis software (PC/Gene) I am trying to get a machine shipped to the
university of Geneva, if that happens I can, if you wish, contact you. I have
a friend which is downloading all the messages relative to NeXt from the bix
bulletin board (they were already some 400 messages in a week after the
presentation), I am going to ask him to send me the interesting messages
and, if you want, I can forward them to you.
Amos Bairoch
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Date: 03 November 1988, 11:32:34 HFH
From: Michel Jorda JORDA at FRSUN12
To: Andrew Wallace wallace%FMI.CH@cernvax
Hi Andrew,
The Cube (on the BIONEWS list):
there is a new list NEXT-L (at BROWNVM, I think) about this machine. I
suppose you will find interesting things in the log files. The last news
are $6500 for universities, Jan 89.
..
Regards,
Michel.
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Andrew Wallace, FMI, Basel, Switzerland.