barry@julia.math.ucla.edu (09/25/90)
Keywords: One of the nicest things about the latest line of machines from NeXT is that I can finally have the same machine at home as in the office (say, get a nice slab for home, and a NeXTDimension cube for the office) instead of the current duality (NeXT at home, for use, Sparc in the office, for power). All thats missing is a _portable NeXT_---then I could have one with me at all times! Did anyone mention the possibility of a NeXT portable? Now that the architects are done with the cude, and slab, they need something to work on...I can see the specs now: built in microwave transmitter, satellite dish,... Hopefully, NeXT will be smarter than Apple and not wait 4 more years to introduce a portable. One contribution we can make: the name; whats the next term in this sequence: Cube, Slab, ____ Chip? Briquette? Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
scott@NIC.GAC.EDU (09/26/90)
One contribution we can make: the name; whats the next term in this sequence: Cube, Slab, ____ Chip? Briquette? Chunk, block, brick (though that's taken, I think). Since is will be a 6" ivory sphere, though, I think softball may be more appropriate :-) scott
stevew@ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) (09/26/90)
One contribution we can make: the name; whats the next term in
this sequence: Cube, Slab, ____
Chip? Briquette?
Flake? :-)
Steve Wootton
stevew@{en,ei,el}.ecn.purdue.edu
stevew@pur-ee.uucp
stevew%ecn.purdue.edu@purccvm.bitnettempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui) (09/26/90)
In article <9009260416.AA01024@mcs-server.gac.edu> scott@NIC.GAC.EDU writes: > > One contribution we can make: the name; whats the next term in > this sequence: Cube, Slab, ____ > Hmm, From the way things are going, how about "slice"? "I'd like another slice, please." "Pass the slice over here. No--not that slice, the NeXT slice... yes, thank you." Although I don't know how it will hold up with the drink of the same name. Ken .............................................................________________. tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|
geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) (09/27/90)
In article <407@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Barry Merriman) writes: >Hopefully, NeXT will be smarter than Apple and not wait 4 more >years to introduce a portable. >One contribution we can make: the name; whats the next term in >this sequence: Cube, Slab, ____ Plate. Slice. Saucer. Discus. Frisbee. Nerf. Geoffrey S. Knauth geoff@camex.com Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St. geoff%camex@uunet.uu.net Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451 --standard disclaimers--
34X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET (09/28/90)
Right now the only problem with a portable NeXT is that active matrix color
liquid crystal displays are not large enough to equal mega-pixel in dimentions.
But, considering that they now have VGA resolutions in such flat-panel displays
, I figure that is only a matter of time...
Jeff Kavanaugh:
NeXT fanatic...rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (10/07/90)
In article <90271.01052434X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET> 34X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET writes: >Right now the only problem with a portable NeXT is that active matrix color >liquid crystal displays are not large enough to equal mega-pixel in dimentions. I guess in a portable color is not top priority. As Toshiba proved with their portable Sparc-based Laptop, it is possibel to put a workstation class computer in a lap-top, even a LCD display with mega-pixel resolution. In fact NeXT could use Toshibas facilities to get a bare-bone portable i.e. case and display. Then they just would need to put in an appropriate CPU-board and there we have our portable NeXT. So maybe we will see such a thing soon. Would be really cool... Ronald P.S.: This is NOT a rumor, this is just a discussion of the possibilites and a wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
rock@lighthouse.com (10/08/90)
In article <52379@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >In fact NeXT could use Toshibas facilities to >get a bare-bone portable i.e. case and display. Then they just would >need to put in an appropriate CPU-board and there we have our portable >NeXT. So maybe we will see such a thing soon. Would be really cool... Since IBM has announced NeXTstep for PS/2s running AIX 3.0, I imagine it might be possible to use a PS/2-compatible portable as a NeXTstep machine. (Of course, storage requirements might make the machine more of a luggable.) Anyone have a clue about the feasibility of such a portable? Roger Rosner Lighthouse Design rock@lighthouse.com
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes:
(Of course, storage requirements might make the machine more of a
luggable.)
The Oct 1 1990 issue of Electronic Engineering Times has a brief
article on page 16 describing Maxtor's announcement of a 3.5" drive
that holds (get this!) 535Mb. It has a 128Kb cache, access times
average 12ms for reads and 13ms for writes, and a 6Mb/sec peak
transfer rate through synchronous SCSI.
The article doesn't mention its weight, but I probably wouldn't mind
carrying one through an airport, inside an appropriate machine :-)rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes: > >In article <52379@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) >writes: > >>In fact NeXT could use Toshibas facilities to >>get a bare-bone portable i.e. case and display. Then they just would >>need to put in an appropriate CPU-board and there we have our portable >>NeXT. So maybe we will see such a thing soon. Would be really cool... > >Since IBM has announced NeXTstep for PS/2s running AIX 3.0, I imagine >it might be possible to use a PS/2-compatible portable as a NeXTstep >machine. (Of course, storage requirements might make the machine more >of a luggable.) > >Anyone have a clue about the feasibility of such a portable? The portable I was referring to is Toshibas SparcLaptop, not the T5200. Nevertheless a PC-compatible Portable running NeXTStep would be great for other reasons. The problem seems to be with IBM. As far as I have been told they want to offer only NeXTStep on machines with a special high speed display adapter. This might be ok for everyday usage, but when I am travelling, then I care less about speed than about that I can use the same software, test out some ideas etc. Unless IBM brings a RS/6000 portable or a P70/megapixel I'm afraid it doesn't look like this is going to work out anytime soon. But maybe NeXT will surprise us in the Future. Give them a chance :-) Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) (10/23/90)
>Since IBM has announced NeXTstep for PS/2s running AIX 3.0, I imagine
Unfortunately they've yanked the product. It was "too slow" according to a
marketing person at the BaNG meeting last week. My comment to that was
"So what, you released PM just the same, why not NeXTStep"? But anyway,
it certainly ran well on an RS/6000. I was surprised to see that they
use the StepStone Objective-C compiler and not GNU.
Anyway...scratch that portable idea - I wanted to do that myself.
- g