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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: NeXT prototype with Motorola 40mhz 88110 RISC CPU!
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.175901.18555@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
References: <676698423wkn3369@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> <SMITHW.91Jun12071931@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 17:59:01 GMT
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smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes:

>  However, something may be fishy with the infoworld article.
>The Mips number is a bit low I think.  Unless NeXT put on the 
>brakes to keep costs down somewhere.  There was some question about
>putting in on board color support instead of (as a lower cost 
>option) the ND board for cubes.

  Yes, I heard the same rumour [about six months ago], that 
they would effectively incorporate NeXT Dimension's capabilities
onto the motherboard of their 88110 machines [by trashing Intel's 
860 and going with the 96002].

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