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From: root@amyerg.UUCP (Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: The NEXT machine
Keywords: What its going to be like...
Message-ID: <415@amyerg.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 16:35:17 GMT
Organization: MS Dept. of Corrections
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In case some of you haven't already seen the specifications for the NEXT
computer (by Steve Jobs, et al), here are what they are supposed to be for the
introductory model:

68030 processor at 25 mHz
4 megs of RAM (1.5 meg reserved for graphics)
300 meg erasable optical drive (courtesy of Sony)
1.4 meg 3.5" disk drive
MACH operating system (Carnagie-Mellon Multi-processor Unix) with
   the kernel in RAM
Display Postscript, X-Windows, and NEXT interface (in ROM)
Built-in 9600 baud modem
SCSI and Parallel ports, as well as an ethernet port
Copy of Mathematica
C compiler
1024 x 960(?) monochrome display

Price: $5995 (40% discount available to educational institutions)

Looking forward to getting mine!

-- 
Ewan Grantham (601) 354-6454 ext. 412  Miss. Dept. of Corrections
{}!swbatl!amyerg!egranthm             (The Prison People)
My bosses aren't responsible for me, and vice versa
Go New Orleans Saints!!!