dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) (05/10/90)
I just received a mail message from our NeXT rep that said NeXT has announced a 68040 based NeXT, details: - available 4th quarter 1990 - existing owners upgrade cost $1495 So does anyone have more info, like how much is a new 040 NeXT? Colour? etc. -dennis -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you certain that all of your friends can pass | Dennis Vadura the TURING TEST? | dvadura@dragon.uwaterloo.ca ================================================================================
louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (05/10/90)
Received from our "campus rep": Date: Wed, 9 May 90 13:22:39 PST To: wdc_customers@next.com From: Joel_McClung@next.com Subject: Press release News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Allison Thomas Associates Allison Thomas (818) 981-1520 Emily Brower (415) 780-3786 NeXT ANNOUNCES 68040 COMPUTER REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 9, 1990 -- NeXT, Inc. today announced plans to offer a version of its computer based on the Motorola 68040 microprocessor in Q4 1990. In addition, the company announced that all of its current customers will be able to purchase an upgrade to the 68040 for a suggested retail price of $1,495. More than 60 percent of all workstations and 100 percent of all Macintosh computers are powered by Motorola's 68000 family of microprocessors. All current NeXT Computers use the 68030, the most powerful member of the 68000 family now in use. The 68040 is Motorola's fourth generation of the 68000 family and is binary- compatible with its predecessors, providing a smooth upgrade path for existing software. "The 68040 offers NeXT's customers both RISC performance and personal computer affordability," said Steven P. Jobs, president and chairman of NeXT. The 68040 incorporates the best of CISC technology (single chip, on- board cache and large software base) and of RISC technology (performance and reduced clocks per instruction). In addition, its floating-point performance is up to ten times faster than the 68030. Motorola claims that the 68040 outperforms all other CISC microprocessors on the market (including the Intel 80486) as well as many of the RISC offerings currently available (including SPARC) at similar clock speeds. NeXT, Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., began shipping the NeXT Computer with 1.0 system software in September 1989 to customers in a wide range of business, government and academic environments. The computer is available from Businessland throughout North America and the United Kingdom, from Canon Inc. in Asia and directly from NeXT for selected university and federal customers and authorized developers.