Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!land From: land@hpccc.HP.COM (David M. Land) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT rumor, please? Message-ID: <5360018@hpccc.HP.COM> Date: 29 Sep 88 03:20:23 GMT References: <38661@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Organization: HP Corporate Computing Center Lines: 25 Howdy, NetLanders, Just thought I'd thow my 2cents woth into the NeXT rumor mill. I just talked to Nick Arnett about his article of "wild rumors." Seems that some of what is in there is straight from Jobs' mouth -- and raised eyebrows when Nick mentioned the optical disc drive. The drive will hold 265Mbytes, as it turns out, and is completely optical, not magneto-optical. For each of the features mentioned in the story, there are three independent sources (all quite secret, naturally.) Finally, some more tidbits: The machine will have a 56000 DSP chip on board -- a real serious sound crunching machine that runs (I think) at 68 MIPs. At least it does on the high-powered sound cards that use it. If you want to SEE what the NeXT machine will look like, get hold of the upcoming Info World issue. They have a picture. So there. Disclaimer: Mine, all mine.