[comp.sys.next] IBM introduces RISC System/6000 family

rock@lighthouse.com (02/16/90)

Buzzwords galore.  Live telecast from San Francisco.  Loud synthesized
theme music.  Lots of talk about POWER and QUALITY.  Too much "where
this fits into the IBM product line."

In short: sort of inexpensive (starting at $12,995 for a client) and
really fast (starting at 27 MIPS, 7.4 MFLOPS).  The high end is almost
$100,000, with 41 MIPS, 13 MFLOPS.

And they'll be offering that "exciting new technology from Steve Jobs'
team."  But no DSP, no D/A, no optical disk, and no philosophy.

Volume shipments in second quarter.  And they do mean VOLUME.

Roger Rosner
Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
NeXT Mail: rock@lighthouse.com or ...!uunet!lighthouse!rock

dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong) (02/17/90)

In article <1990Feb15.195442.444@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes:
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>[A breief description of the IBM announcement]
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>And they'll be offering that "exciting new technology from Steve Jobs'
>team."  But no DSP, no D/A, no optical disk, and no philosophy.
>
>Volume shipments in second quarter.  And they do mean VOLUME.

They told us that NextStep would be available 3rd quarter.

	Del Armstrong

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