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 |
tim@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)
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (10/17/88)
In article <4433@polya.Stanford.EDU> aozer@NeXT.com writes: >Yes; Objective C 4.0 (Stepstone), GNU C and debugger (Free Software >Foundation). NextStep is accessed through the "appkit" using Objective C. I have to read another 100 messages, so I apologize if this has been answered before, but here it goes: Is the "standard" Software Foundation license shipped with GNU C ? This license does not allow commercial use WITHOUT agreeing to ship sources with the commercial program. Ali? Next? FSF? -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
jdn@mas1.UUCP (Jeff Nisewanger) (10/17/88)
In article <4858@louie.udel.EDU> you write: > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (paging to an optical disk? right.) xxxxxxx I think this critisism is a bit unrealistic. There are thousands of Sun and other workstations out there that do paging over the ethernet at an effective rate of 100k per second. The specs on the NeXT optical disk say it does 1mb reads and 400k writes per second throughput. It ought to do just fine. Jeff Nisewanger Measurex Automation Systems Inc. ......apple!mas1!jdn
ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) (10/18/88)
In article <12853@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >I have to read another 100 messages, so I apologize if this has been answered >before, but here it goes: Is the "standard" Software Foundation license >shipped with GNU C ? This license does not allow commercial use WITHOUT >agreeing to ship sources with the commercial program. Ali? Next? FSF? NeXT wrote its own libraries; thus no need to ship the sources to the system software. The sources to the NeXT versions of gcc and gdb will be shipped, though. Ali Ozer, aozer@NeXT.com