HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trimble@alleg.edu (Erik Trimble)
Subject: OD disk WANTED ASAP
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:09:31 GMT

Hi everyone! 
  I need a Cannon Optical Disk (either the single or double sided) as soon
as possible for as little as possible. Anyone out there care to part with a 
used disk?  Please??!!

-Erik
trimble@alleg.edu
From: guan@jacobs.cs.missouri.edu (Guan-Hsong Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Scanner for NeXT
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:21:39 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri


   I am posting this for a friend who has no news access.   Please
reply by mail to him directly.  address : CHENDR@umcvmb.missouri.edu

   My friend is in the process of purchasing a scanner for his NeXT
station (or Cube?)   

   1. Has someone had some experience with ScanX color scanner made by
      HSD microsystems?   Or, can you recommend a better choice?

   2. Is there software available for scanning text pages into text
      file, not pixel or pic files?

   Thanks in advance for any suggestion, idea.
-- 
Guan-Hsong Hsu               | (314)882-8275  
Department of Mathematics    | guan@jacobs.cs.missouri.edu
University of Missouri       |                (128.206.100.201)
Columbia. MO 65211, USA      | mathhsu@umcvmb.bitnet
From: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Is the NeXT Computer DEAD? (Response to SunWorld NeXT review)
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:58:18 GMT
Organization: Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation

In article <1992Apr1.174516.18405@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
>
>At a campus demo last night, the regional NeXT folks said
>that NeXT was only interested in, "friendly" ports, such
>as the Intel port.  Intel was as involved as NeXT with the
>port of NeXTstep 486.  Sadly, no one else (ie Sun, HP, SGI)
>that we know about is as interested in NeXTstep as Intel.  

Of course not.  This would only fuel NeXT's competative advantage.  Sun/HP
have their own tools and machines to market.  They don't want the NeXT
advantage.
--- 

Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
8340 Greensboro Drive #223  Phone: (703) 356-6514
McLean VA                   Uucp: mimsy!black-silicon!hacker
22102                       Internet: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"Beneath a sky of perpetual twilight towers a black cube measuring 20 miles
on each side: "Black Silicon", Dark Hacker's fortress of computation!"
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: RightBrain Software to Ship Source Code
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:44:12 GMT
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


In article <1992Apr9.180328.15928@cs.yale.edu>
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:

>In article <1992Apr8.225325.29059@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>>Looks like general warfare is about to break out.  It could
>>be avoided by a little temperance all around.

Let me see if I can practice what I preach.

>If Todd's posting was a cheap shot at SEF, why do you think
>your and Glenn's postings attacking me are not?

I don't think the cases are directly comparable, for one
thing.  For another, Nathan, merely advancing my opinion as
to the probable downside of your usual style does not
constitute an "attack."

>I have both fans and detractors.

As you remark, this is probably true of nearly everyone.  It
does leave the question, however, of whether useful
discussion actually involves "fans," pro or con.

>If we're going to get personal about writing style, Jess,
>I have a few things to say about the high-handed,
>patriarchal way that you are using to flame me and my
>postings.  

While I don't object to "getting personal" about writing
style, I think it would be more nearly accurate to
characterize mine as matriarchal.  And Nathan, it's better
to be high-handed than underhanded.  (Oops.)

>You can't claim more than a few additional
>USENET years on me (since 1982), 

How old were you then?  Ten?
(Oops again.)

>Jess so please follow
>your own temperance advise and take your opinion of me to
>email.    

Well now, I have tried that, repeatedly.  What I tend to get
back is a lot of "oh yes, you're right, I shouldn't have
done that, mea culpa, mea gravissima culpa" and the world
gets more of what went before.

It's an objective truth, Nathan, that you are a whiner.
And a recidivist one at that.

(Well, only about 60% temperate, but I tried.)

-- 
Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hinds@camis.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Hinds)
Subject: Cyberspace file system
Keywords: where is it?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date:  9 Apr 92 21:44:22 GMT

I remember seeing a posting a while back on a prototype cyberspace-like
file system for the NeXT.  Could somebody please email me and tell me
where I can ftp this thing?  Thanks.

--X

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: NeXTcube Turbo SIMM Slots
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:17:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.203220.11921@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew  
Loewenstern) writes:

> Mistake... 128 megs.  You have to cram 32-meg simms in
> there.  Probably have to   get them custom made since not
> very many computers can handle them. 

That's what I thought you meant.

I still think it's a stingy choice to only use four SIMM slots
for the cube Turbo board.  Since the primary choice, economically
speaking, would be 4 and 8 MB SIMMs at this time, the effective
max RAM is 32 MB, which is a (another) step backward for the new
board.

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: tlm@nextasy (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: WRI 1-800 # & MMA 2.0.4
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:32:08 GMT


snyderre@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert E. Snyder) writes:
: In article <1992Apr9.233257.21173@athena.mit.edu> ermarsh@athena.mit.edu  
: (Eric R Marsh) writes:
: > In article <1992Apr9.155803.29436@colorado.edu>  
: spenton@irie.Colorado.EDU (Steve Penton) writes:
: > >
: > >	Is it true that a simple phone call to this # will
: > >        get you Mathematica 2.0.4 ?  (Thats the version that
: > >        saves memory usage by loading the packages only as needed)
: > >
: > 
: > I didn't have any trouble getting Wolfram to send me a copy of 2.0.4.5  
: which
: > is supposed to only load the necessary packages as needed.  However,  
: once
: > I got it, the 'thin' kernel didn't work at all.  After two phone calls  
: to
: > Wolfram the Tech support person told me that the thin kernel didn't  
: work.  The 
: > full kernel does work and fixes minor problems with the previous 2.0.*  
: release.
: > 
: > Eric
: 
: When I called Wolfram Research, via their normal phone number, non 1-800-  
: I got the run around quite a bit.  I then finally got to some one in the  
: correct department. (which I'm not sure what it was)  They asked me if I  
: had any problems with the MMA I was using at current.  I said no, but I  
: wanted the new MMA so I could just load the 'thin kernal' to save my self  
: time etc.  (I thought it was a valid reason)  They told me that I had to  
: have something wrong with the program and just because I wanted to save  
: myself time, that was not good enough to warrant a new copy of MMA  
: 2.0.4.5.  Anyway, thought you guys might like to know.  If I find  
: something wrong I shall call back, but I guess I won't waste my time or my  
: phone bill on trying to make up a reason to get a new version.

Two points:  (1)  the thin kernel works just fine on my NeXTstation,
and on all of the other ones here.  In addition I've seen other people
post about using it. Have no idea why it would not work for anyone else,
*but* when I was talking to a tech support guy a while back he said, in
passing, that "the thin kernel does not work on the NeXT" and when I
told him that we all use it just fine he said "Really?!"  Go figure.

(2)  A valid reason for requesting a new copy of Mathematica is that if you
click some of the on line help panels (try the one in the convert 
pasteboard/save to file panel) it crashes Mma.  Happens with several 
of the on line help panels.  It was when I first reported this bug that
someone at WRI told me to call and ask for the 2.0.4.5 upgrade.  If you
want *another* valid reason tell them that you do Gaussian integrals
all the time and that a lot of them are broken (the broken function is
HyperGeometricU I think) but is largely (not completely) fixed in 
2.0.4.5.

Hope this is helpful

Tom
From: eronald@CNAM.CNAM.FR (Edmund Ronald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Neuron
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:33:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: cnam.199204080233.AA01441

Stuart Ritchie says:
-- NeXTstep, with ISDN support built right into the operating
-- system and hardware --as seamless as it could be-- will be 
-- running rings around your Macintosh.

I am sure he's right because he says "will be". Here in France quite a
few people are already using ISDN on Macs, have been doing so for 1 1/2
years, in fact. I have some doubts however about this appearing on the
NeXT in the future over here.

The reason is that ISDN's control layer is specific to each Telecom operator.
In other words, a US implementation will not be able to talk to a French,
or UK, or Swedish, or German, or Italian exchange.

Now Apple does 40% of its business overseas, and they know about localisation.
They also provide a market large enough for local entrepreneurs to jump in 
with niche products.

NeXT on the other hand has sold less than 1000 machines in France, according
to my (non-NeXT) sources. And they will only deal with the local european 
ISDN's when they have the US version finished. I am afraid they will never
make it, or first quarter 93 at the earliest.

By that time we will have had ISDN working on Macs here for 2 1/2 years. 

Can we stop playing the "my NeXT NeXT is gonna be better than your Mac" game,
and concentrate on the existing software platform? I for one would like a
decent DTP program- they have those too on Macs!

Edmund.
From: dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Is the NeXT Computer DEAD? (Response to SunWorld NeXT review)
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:21:07 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology

In article <1992Apr5.161700.8486@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us writes:
>I'm surprised that you say that 12-bit color is not satisfactory, as you get  
>more colors on the screen than with an 8-bit color map.
>
Yes, but how many shades of gray can you display with a 12-bit system? 
12/3 = 4, so you have 2^4=16 shades of gray. How many shades do you have with a
8-bit system with alocatable colorcells? Yes, 2^8=256. Difference!

Summarizing: On the 12-bit system, you can't be sure you get the pure color. On
a 8-bit palette out of 24 bits you can choose your own color map for your 
special purposes.
>I've spoken with people at the MIT Media Lab about  the NeXTstation Color,  
>including some professional animators.  Much to their surprise, they told me,  
>12=bit color is good enough so that you really can't see the difference.  This  
Sure you can, it depends on how many shades of one color you need.

Dimitri
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rxd20@po.CWRU.Edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
Subject: Help! Cannot run NewsGrazer
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 00:20:52 GMT


Hi Netters

When I run NewsGrazer, it displays the opening screen saying
'Locating active newsgroups' and then dies. When I run it from a terminal
I get a message saying 'Bus error'.

Any help is appreciated.

Ramesh
-- 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard O'Neill)
Subject: Re: Mathematica 2.0 -> 2.* to fix memory bugs?
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:20:14 GMT

Barry Merriman <barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu> writes:
>I thought I heard that there is a Mathematica Version 2.0.1
>or some such for the NeXT, that fixes some memory management bugs 
>in the 2.0, and that this was a free upgrade. Is this true?

Yeah, there is an bux-fix 2.0 upgrade. You have to bug them for it.
I have (from the outside of the packet), v2.0.4.5. Before that I had
2.0.2.

	Richard.

P.S.

If you don't have the following files, you have an incomplete distribution 
and should definately get the upgrade.

.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/00.GettingStarted..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/01.CalculatorOperations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/02.AlgebraTrig..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/03.SolvingEquations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/04.Calculus_D.E..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/05.LinearAlgebra..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/06.NumericalOperations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/07.Numbers_Lists..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/08.MathFunctions..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/09.TransformationRules..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/10.2-DGraphics..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/11.3-DGraphics..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/12.Animation_Sound..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/13.Programming..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/14.SystemOps..m[ab]

Some people don't. I didn't, until I got my upgrade.
-- 
Composing a suitably apt and witty | richard@smaug.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
signature and disclaimer is left   | oneill@fornax.UUCP | NeXTmail OK, but
as an exercise for the reader.     | oneill@cs.sfu.ca   | not >100K OK!
From: clp@home.HarvardSq.COM (Charles L. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: OD disk WANTED ASAP
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:04:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Apr7.210401.15991
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University

In article <1992Apr6.230931.20016@pellns.alleg.edu> trimble@alleg.edu (Erik  
Trimble) writes:
> Hi everyone! 
>   I need a Cannon Optical Disk...

I've been out of town and lost my contacts from last time.

I still need 3-5 new or semi-old one-sided Optical Disks.

I'll pay $50-$70 (negotiable) per disk.

						Thanks,

							Charles
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tgingric@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich)
Subject: Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:53:22 GMT

In article <3579@rosie.NeXT.COM> aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.063210.4999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Also, I was told by someone at NeXT as well as reading on this group
>>that ImageViewer (an app that does similar things in terms of
>>converting from one picture type to another) will be made obsolete by
>>v3.0 NeXTstep.
>>If this is so, why should anyone get this program if they're also
>>upgrading to 3.0?
>
>3.0 does not come with any image filters. 3.0 comes with the ability to
>run filters to automatically convert file types when importing. In fact,
>because of this feature, I think the market for applications like
>PixelMagician will even be bigger. (I should add that I haven't had the
>chance to play with PixelMagician yet...)
>

Hopefully, the guys from Baccus will unbundle their converters & sell them as
3.0 filters.  In addition to selling the whole PixelMagician package.

---
Tyler Gingrich				(614)292-7211
tyler+@osu.edu     

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tms@twins.lanl.gov (Todd M. Swan)
Subject: Re: SEF did it again
Reply-To: tms@twins.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:33:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.074920.7384@darkcube.radig.de> vhs@darkcube.radig.de  
(Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
<stuff about a Sean Eric Fagan mail bounce>

Just ignore him.  Pretend he doesn't exist.

Todd
--
!  "Finally, some good  ! Todd M. Swan (ADP-2 - MS P910)!
!  software for a PC."  ! tms@lanl.gov  (NeXTMail)      !
!  -- Steve Jobs on     ! Los Alamos National Laboratory!
!     NeXTstep '486     ! Los Alamos, NM  87545         !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tms@twins.lanl.gov (Todd M. Swan)
Subject: Re: Is the NeXTStation Turbo vertically disadvantaged?
Reply-To: tms@twins.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:31:33 GMT

In article <9APR199221530916@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov  
(Dick Silbar) writes:
> QUESTION: is there any good reason why we _shouldn't_ leave Rachel's
> slab standing in its upright position? 

Well, back in my PC days (Yes, it was a sad time indeed :-) I wondered the same  
thing about my AT.  I was told that as long as the hard drive was formatted  
while it was vertical, everything would be fine.  Had something to do with  
gravity's effect on the drive heads.  I don't know if this is still true...

Todd
PS  Does the extra 2.5 inches make that much difference?  What about a higher  
chair or lower desk?
--
!  "Finally, some good  ! Todd M. Swan (ADP-2 - MS P910)!
!  software for a PC."  ! tms@lanl.gov  (NeXTMail)      !
!  -- Steve Jobs on     ! Los Alamos National Laboratory!
!     NeXTstep '486     ! Los Alamos, NM  87545         !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nimno!john@wupost.wustl.edu (John Bartley)
Subject: Parabase
Reply-To: nimno!john@wupost.wustl.edu (John Bartley)
Organization: John Bartley
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:59:13 GMT

Just got my copy of Parabase. It certainly gets my nomination for the  
"Packaging Overkill of the Year" award. It came in a box big enough for  
TWO toasters, filled with foam peanuts, enclosed in a foam filled box  
that contains:

	1	diskette
	1	binder, 8 x 10"
	84	pages

I could easily fit a dozen of these in the box. Hmmmmm. Looks like  
maybe Discopylab makes money on packaging, right? I hope the software  
quality matches the packaging quality. :-)

John Bartley
From: rseguine@buckeye.mitre.org (Roy SeGuine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Newly placed in Purdue archive...
Date: 1 Apr 92 21:37:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: linus.1992Apr1.213706.153
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

In article <1992Apr1.053659.5483@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>  
nwc@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) writes:
> I just put GISO, my sound format converter, in submissions on
> the Purdue archive...
> 			Ronin Consulting
> Nicholas W. Christopher			 Nick_Christopher@gun.com

Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Applause, Yes..... Sing Hallelujah!!!!!!  
[Thank you Nick]

--

Roy SeGuine	NeXT SA
*many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased* Dan12:4

USMail:		MITRE Corp 7525 Colshire Drive McLean Va. 22102
Voice:		(703) 883 - 7 double oh 7
From: simsong (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: RTF: Mac Word vs NeXT
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:05:48 GMT
Reply-To: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us
Organization: NeXTWORLD Magazine

In article <1992Apr3.161444.23365@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew  
Loewenstern) writes:
> In article <MdqhfP_00Uh700tEY6@andrew.cmu.edu>  writes:
> >  I noticed that MS Word saves in RTF.  But this is a different format
> >  than the ansi standard NeXT uses.  Is there any way to convert between
> >  the two?
> 
> RTF isn't an ANSI standard...  RTF is a Microsoft standard.  NeXT is the one  
> that implements nonstandard RTF.
> 
Actually, they implement the same standard.  The problem is that NeXT uses  
PostScript mappings for high-bit-8 characters, while MS Word uses Macintosh  
mappings.

-simson
-- 

................................................................simson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Neuron (really networking NeXT vs. Mac)
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:17:41 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.170906.10148@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip  
McDunnough) writes:

> One of the Mac's stronger points has been networking.
> Appletalk is very nice and using it remotely is even
> nicer. If anything it's the NeXT that has so far been hard
> to integrate into mixed networks. 

While I often find Philip's critisism of various NeXT follies
on target, I have to disagree with the above point.

As far as I've seen, NeXTstep and the machines have
supported unix networking out of the box, and 3rd parties
have offered connectivity solutions for Mac
networking.  The Mac is the opposite.  How does that make
the Mac better? 

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)

Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:53:15 -0400 
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: OpenGL vs. Renderman


One thing that should be mentioned about Pixar's creation of RenderMan: 
They thought ahead... the RIB language has a number of commands that are
highly expandable (though, as of yet, unsupported by Pixar's prman
(PhotoRealistic renderMAN renderer) in its last incarnation).  One
example is trim curves;  trim curves are curves defined as NURBs
(Non-Uniform Rational B-splines) that trim parts out of surfaces defined
as NURBs.

NURBS are complex, but very cool.  All the stuff is in RIB to support
NURBs fully, but the renderers aren't smart enough yet (though I'm sure
someone has a custom in-house renderer that supports this stuff [if
there are, do they need a slightly experienced graphics hacker?? :-)]). 
If you try to do a trimcurve call in RIB code, the prman will check the
syntax and then tell you that "TrimCurve: FEATURE NOT IMPLEMENTED"
(which was a very painful wall to bash my head against).

Cool stuff.

b.bum

bbum+@cmu.edu    | But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned
                 | As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned
NeXT Developer   | And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue
  Support Temp   | Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun  -- PHISH
From: wisdom@leghorn.cs.umn.edu (Scott Wisdom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT's RISC Workstation
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:11:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <1992Apr10.091036.3083@whetstone.uucp> whetstone!johnc@ms.uky.edu  
(John Coppinger) writes:
> My question is this: is the 88K really that fast?  Does Motorola really know  
> something about RISC that Sun doesn't?  How does Motorola get 75+ MIPS out of  
> their RISC when Sun is working pretty hard to squeeze 30 out of SPARC?  I'm  
not  
> a processor freak, so I don't really know about this stuff.  Can someone  
> enlighten me?
I think it's pretty fast. From what I understand the 88100 (88000?) wasn't all  
that great. Motorola has been working on the 88110 for quite some time now  
(=years) and it is SUPPOSED to make up for many of the 88100's shortcomings.  
One thing I would like to know is what kind of 3d graphics support does the  
88110 have? On chip Z-buffering? Does anyone know? There have been references  
to 3d hardware support.

Scott Wisdom
wisdom@geom.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: NeXTStation Color SIMM Slots
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:32:20 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.131824.12451@pellns.alleg.edu> trimble@alleg.edu (Erik  
Trimble) writes:
>  In article <1992Apr6.073918.7706@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew  
>  Loewenstern) writes:
>  > > [stuff about 32MB limit of Turbos]
>  > You can put 132 megs in it.  Why are you always so negative?
>  > 
>  > andrew
>  [.sig deleted]
>  
>  They make 50MB Simms?  Who? Where? When?

Mistake... 128 megs.  You have to cram 32-meg simms in there.  Probably have to  
get them custom made since not very many computers can handle them.


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings