ea08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric A. Anderson) (11/06/90)
This is a summary of the responses to the questions I asked.
On Speed :
15 mips, 2 MFlops, 2x speed increase on System 2.0 , 040 ~3x faster.
This should translate to about 6x faster with 040, and System 2.
Someone else pointed out though that the speed depends also on harddrive
and memory.
In the same class as the Sparc, about 2-2.5x a 50Mhz IIfx (I assume they
meant 40 but anyway)
Also 7000 dhrystones, .2 Mflops on 030, 18000 dhrystones, 2.5 Mflops on 040
On X
It exists in R3, R4 port is mostly done -- should compile on System 2,
but unknown.
On Stability - System 1.0a was very stable, system 2.0 beta less so, but
not bad, and it is a beta system. Should be fine. Few people had had
problems.
I would like to thank everyone who responded.
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I now have more questions.
1. Can the Monochrome station be upgraded to a Color station?
2. Is there any level of color available on the cube below the ~$4000
NextDimension? I would like say 256 colors out of 16Mil. That would be
sufficient for a while I'd expect.
Thanks to all who responded, and thanks in advance to those who will
respond to this set of questions. I will try to post summaries again.
-Eric
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*********************************************************tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich) (11/06/90)
>I now have more questions. >1. Can the Monochrome station be upgraded to a Color station? Not currently, and NeXT's official position is that it will not be possible to upgrade the basic NeXT station to a Color NeXT Station. If you want color: buy a NS Color or a CUBE. >2. Is there any level of color available on the cube below the ~$4000 >NextDimension? I would like say 256 colors out of 16Mil. That would be >sufficient for a while I'd expect. > not at the current time. Tyler