HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bobcook@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer  -- how to "unhang it" after bad nntp server name ?
Reply-To: bobcook@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Cook)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:29:54 GMT

Operator writes
>One of my students has the newsgrazer hung up.  He had used the wrong nntp  
>server name and now each time he launches newsgrazer, it hangs up and  
>eventually kills itself.  Is there some default file somewhere we can  
>erase and restart giving the proper server name ?

From a Terminal or Stuart window, have him issue the command

  dremove NewsGrazer NewsGrazerNNTPServer

--
Bob Cook                              bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center    NeXT mail okay
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gisli@hamilton.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Subject: Re: emacs-18.59 pkg for NeXT posted
Reply-To: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:47:47 GMT

Carl Edman writes
}  Emacs 3.0 Does The Right Thing and allows you to set the path to the
}  emacs executable in the preferences. Maybe NeXT should start shipping
}  it with the OS.

Right, but not until Emacs 3.0 is able to display 8-bit chars.

						Gisli

..............................................................................
							Gisli Ottarsson
   Delenda est Carthago.         			University of Michigan
							gisli@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
Subject: Manual ICON positions in Workspace Manager
Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb
Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:33:15 GMT

I can drag and drop file and folder ICONs around the Workspace panel and  
they stick there for awhile, but eventually they move back into sorted  
positions.  This happens even if the .places3_0.wmd files contains

Places = "grid locations in here...";
ManualPositions = YES;

Does anyone know how to enforce Manual ICON positions?

Thanks
-- 
Larry Blische              uunet!lkba!lkb
LKB Associates, Inc.
3118 Dunglow Road
Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: conway@agora.com (Mark Conway)
Subject: neural net software
Reply-To: conway@agora.com
Organization: Agora Software
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:08:40 GMT

What, if any, neural net software is available on the NeXT?

Mark
conway@agora.com (NeXTmail)
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SAS for NeXT
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <1992Dec14.213045.29054@midway.uchicago.edu>  
cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Corey Liss) writes:
>>
>>Is there any word on whether SAS is developing a version for NeXT?
>>
>>
>>keeping it short...
>>
>>-Corey Liss
>>cpl1@midway.uchicago.edu

It's done (for over a year now).

Short enough?
--
Ronald Pomeroy		[Objective-Cruntime: [Smalltalk runtime]];
Advanced Micro Devices	[self dream-on];
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Interest in Full Motion video, without
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:22:42 GMT

madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:

>I hope we see some video decompression hardware soon also.  And from
>NeXT--it will require some integration with the video hardware.

I certainly hope so as well.  In higher education, the digital
video-ish tools that IBM is introducing (built into XGA/2, for
example) and Apple is perfecting (QuickTime 1.5) are incredibly
important for coursework development.  NeXT needs some scheme to
allow at least 300x200x256 at a reasonable rate over a network.  The
CPU power is there, it just needs a chip or 3 to do the
compression/decompression.
NeXT can throw a ton of high-quailty TIFFs up if you have the RAM,
but if not everyone has a 32 MB color machine, it just won't work
right.  (I'm thinking of Movie.app)
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                  BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
Subject: Re: Getting data from Mac to NeXT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:20:35 GMT

How on earth can I use files saved in rtf format
on a dos or mac machine if my Next translates all
quotes, apostrophes and foreign accent marks into
odd doodads? This makes the Next unusable for me
at least for a great bulk of the work I do.

Thanks for any advice,

L.A. Brooks
From: asp@chem.ucsd.edu (Alexander S. Polinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT cube for sale
Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:04:22 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdchemi3.ucsd.edu

I have a 1 year old NeXT cube for sale:

NeXT Cube 68040, 25 MHz,  24MB RAM, 250MB hard drive,
         optical drive with 3 disks (2x256MB and 1x512MB)
         2.88MB floppy drive
B/W Megapixel display, keybord
NeXT 400dpi laser printer
Software: Matematica, Lotus Improv, SoftPC, Squash

OS: 2.1 truncated development environment on the hard drive
(only files necessary to compile C programs and use Interface
Builder are installed) and full development environment on the
optical. 

I paid ~$13,000 for this beauty a year ago, you can have it
for only $9,000/obo.

Alex Polinsky
UCSD, Chemistry Dept
(619)455-3200

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: charon@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Sebastian Florian Mix)
Subject: Re: Why, Why, WHYYYY?? USE OBJECTIVE-C for IB??
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:34:40 GMT

sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes:

>jake@skatter.usask.ca wrote:
>: From article <1fg7kqINNi29@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, by isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell):
>: > 
>: > 
>: > What Edit needs is emacs' CM-b and CM-f functionality to conveniently jump to
>: > the start and end of a bracketed clause so that those starting brackets can be
>: > easily inserted.
>: > -- 
>: > 
>: > Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
>:  What Edit needs is to be able to interpret elisp.
>
>What NeXTstep needs is an independent USER AGENT object that sits outside
>of any and all programs, accepts commands in some suitable language, and
>executes them.  If the language happened to be elisp, then that set of
>capabilities could be extracted from emacs.  Emacs could still use it to
>work exacctly the way it works now.  Edit could use it.  NeXTMail could
>use it.  All god's chillun could use it.
>
No, you didn't say REXX, don't you };-)>
User Agent objects of this kind are a fine idea, but their succes
or failure mainly depends on how widespread they become (= how many
applications are available to export functions through UAs) and on
the amount of fiddling around with the system they will save you from.
GNU-Emacs is fine as long as you're lisp-wizard or can live with those
packets you can get from the net. But it grows and grows...
So, a more general approach would be of more use, perhaps someone
has compiled REXX for the NeXT and has build a nice sample-app
to show its use under NeXTstep ? Or perhaps NeXT Inc. will show us a
mindbogglingly new way in user-configurable interprocess communication ?

>   USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT
>
REXX REXX REXX REXX REXX ?????

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sebastian Mix, Eichhornstr.5-6 Apt.222, D-1000 Berlin 30, T: (030) 262 1811 /(a\
charon@cs.tu-berlin.de <-no NeXTmail yo-> charabib@w271zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de \p)/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 21:11:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.180118.105908@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer)  
writes:
> In article <1g7sq8INNggf@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> ovrskeek@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (I am the  
OVER-skeek!) writes:
> >lschultz@pdx255 (Leonard Schultz) writes:
> >
> >
> >The P5 (I hope this name sticks, pentium sucks!) may be superscalar,
> >but it is not available yet, now is it? How many more transistors does
> >it need to match the performance of a MIPS r4000? Which is already available!
> >IF the P5 makes its (claimed) performance figures, it wouldn't be in the
> >running for fastest chip if it was released tommorow!
> >
> 
> Still, Intel drives volumes high enough that while their chips may not be
> the fastest per transistor, they are often the fastest per dollar.

Price comparison:
	Intel 486, 50 MHz:	>US$ 400.- in thousands
	Sparc "Tsunami", 50 MHz	<US$ 80.- in thousands
in addition, the Tsunami only needs another four support chips plus RAM
for a complete system, while the 486 requires many more.

> Economy of Scale is very important here.

Yeah! That's why they should *not* stick with a monopolist like intel.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de)

Looks good on the outside, but -
	intel inside
From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Is PasteUp Available?
Date: 21 Dec 92 05:47:20 GMT
Organization: DSO, Stanford University

In article <1992Dec5.220122.28837@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com  
(Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
> In article <92338.203630U54876@uicvm.uic.edu> <U54876@uicvm.uic.edu>  
writes:
> >I am interested in some information about PasteUp: Has anyone who  
ordered
> >PasteUp actually recieved it yet, or does anyone have a legitimate,  
working
> >copy that they are using?  Just interested.
> 
> Yes, PasteUp has been shipping for a little over a month now.

Actually, PasteUp 1.1 is shipping now.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald)
Subject: Software lock-in, NeXT get a life!
Summary: AAAAAARRRGGGHHH
Keywords: rtf, ascii, french
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:22:21 GMT

 I write. I write for a living. I write on my cube, when I can. Then I have
 to hand the copy in to an editor.   Said (human :) editor sits in front 
 of a PC. My text is usually in French, contains all these nice accents
 which the french seem to need like salt and pepper.

  There is a DOS Ascii character set, and a Windows character set. 

  HOW THE HELL IS ONE SUPPOSED TO MOVE TEXT TO EITHER? 
  AM I THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD WHO GETS ANGRY ABOUT THIS?
  OH, YES, I KNOW ABOUT RTF. ON THE NEXT RTF MEANS NEXT_RTF :(

  ARGH.

 Edmund (who also happens to be a NeXT developper, but can't be bothered)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: Reassigning command key equivalents without editing .nib ??
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:36:01 GMT

antoine@osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) writes:
> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
> |=|dwrite NewsGrazer NXCommandKeys "Help...,.,Next,.,Previous,., \
> |=|Next with subject,.,Previous with subject,.,Posts in Progress...,., \
> |=|Followup to post,.,Reply by mail,.,Filter Author,.,Filter Subject,., \
> |=|Filter Account,.,Show article...,.,Sort by title,.,Sort by number,., \
> |=|Record read articles,.,NewsFolders...,M,Mark articles read,y"
> 
> Ok, can you explain what this does? thks

Here's some that I have, with explanation:

dwrite Mail NXCommandKeys "Dark Gray,D,Black,B,Active.mbox,|"
   = command-shift-D for "Dark Grey"  (on 2.1 systems)
     command-shift-B for "Black"      (on 2.1 systems)
     command-|  (vertical bar) to bring up my Active.mbox window,
                (which is usually miniaturized)

dwrite Stuart NXCommandKeys "Close Window,W"
   = command-shift-W (instead of command-w) for "Close Window"
                 in Stuart.

--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From:  (slugg jello)
Subject: Re: Paget CD-ROM
Reply-To: slugg@mouthers.wa.com
Organization: Mouthing Flowers
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 07:04:22 GMT

In article <17465@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
> I thought the Email was eaw@paget.com.  Haven't tried it recently.

I used aw@paget.com (not eaw) recently and it worked.
-- 
Doug Kent
slugg@mouthers.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Adrian Smith)
Subject: Re: WhosOnFirst 2.0 and nova.cc.purdue.edu
Reply-To: adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:30:51 GMT

In article <justin.724553569@mik.uky.edu> justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)  
writes:
> In <1992Dec16.122510.16003@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce  
#305) writes:
> 
> I was expecting a binary. That would have been an excellent demo..
> I thought it was a little odd to find source code for a demo, and I certainly
> wouldn't expect source code. Perhaps source for the app but a binary for the
> fully functional product would be beneficial? It would certainly give us
> a reasonable sample of what they're offering..

We had a chance to see a demo of the TextToSpeech kit at a recent user group  
meeting. Craig was kind enough to drive from Calgary to Edmonton to show it off (180  
miles). It was very impressive! While some people were turned off by the fact that  
it doesn't sounds *completely* human, the mere fact that it was able to turn written  
text into recognizable speech was awe-inspiring.

I can understand why there is no demo of the kit. It's BIG. Too big to attempt to  
place on an FTP site, anyway.

Thanks for coming to see us, Craig. Perhaps we can return the favour someday soon...

--
Adrian Smith

---
University of Alberta NeXT Campus Consultant
adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca
Audix: 5482
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Helpful Font Panel Trick
Keywords: Fonts, Organize
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:08:03 GMT

Ivo Welch asked in a recent post if there was not a way to take seldom
used fonts and organize them at a lower level of the font browser. I figured
out how to do this some time ago, and have been meaning to post it for a 
while now.  This seems a good time both because of Ivo's asking about
it directly and because there are suddenly a bunch more fonts, many
created by Fontographer, available on sonata.  

By the way, as some who read this group may have noticed, one of my 
biggest gripes with the NeXT is the font panel, which I think is a 
complete joke (I was amazed it wasn't updated in 3.0).  The font panel should
really have all of the characteristics of a browser, with multiple levels of
heirarchies, the ability to grab a bunch of fonts and group htem in a 
"folder", etc. (that way you can grab the 5-6 fonts you might want to use
for a document and just have to select from them, instead of scrolling up
and down finding them).  

Anyway, grumbling aside, once I added all of the Type 1 PS TeX fonts
I had something like 300 fonts on my machine, so the panel was completely
cluttered.  A good many of those fonts are the PD ones from Sonata, generally
translated by Fontographer, and they have the disadvantage of all appearing
in the leftmost column of the font panel, making the font panel over-full
at the most basic level.  The trick below allows you to cluster those fonts
in "families", where a given family takes up only one line in the leftmost
column and then has as many lines in the middle column as there are fonts.
What I did was to divide the PD fonts into groups, basically the ones
I chose were 


1)  scripts
2)  blackletters
3)  others

you then go to each font and open up the corresponding .afm file and
on the line that says FamilyName  change the entry to be the  family
name you want to store the font under.  

Thus, for say Alison the top of the .afm file reads

StartFontMetrics 2.0
Comment Generated by Fontographer 10/13/87 2:15:21 PM 
FontName Alison
FullName Alison
FamilyName  Scripts
Weight standard

etc.  and similarly for Author, BrushScript, and all of the other
script fonts made by Fontographer.  Once I'd done all of the PD fonts I
had, breaking them into three entries in the left column instead of 
25-30 the font panel was a good deal less cluttered, but of course it's
still a relatively inadequate aspect of the NeXT (Oh, by the way, you have
to rebuild the afmdir after making these changes).  

I tested this under both 2.1 and 3.0 and have had no troubles.

Hope this is helpful --- Tom


PS:  Ivo also asked if there were any other good alternatives to Courier
for fixed width fonts, and of course there is Ohlfs.  If you are thinking
of getting the Type 1 PS TeX fonts from Y & Y then LucidaSansTypeWriter
is also a pretty good fixed width font (more readable than even Ohlfs
for those with weak vision).

Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.misc:23076 comp.text.frame:3676
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: FrameMaker and SLIP
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:45:40 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu

In article <1992Dec9.143000.1489@bankone.com> steved@bankone.com writes:

>Does anyone know how to keep FrameMaker (NeXT variant) from looking for other  
>licenses when it starts up?
>
>I have a SLIP feed, and pay by connect time.  Every time Frame starts up it  
>opens a connection....
>
>I vaguely recall that there was a way around this, although Frame Tech support  
>wasn't any help.

It may be that Frame is also making a DNS query to look up a host
name, and this is causing traffic to be sent out the SLIP interface.
Just a thought.

I'm working on a new version which will have much, much finer grained
control over exactly what sorts of packets will cause the link to be
brought up, as well as being able to filter traffic sent and received.
It may be this could be an eventual solution to your problem.

You could also disable the dial-on-demand feature by using the
DISABLECALL paramater on the duioctl command.  This means you'd have
to bring the link up manually.

louie

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: Make BackSpace Work at Login Panel (was: Look for screen saver )
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:18:06 GMT

shawn@monitor.com writes
> Pixellated Technologies has a screen saver called PixelSaver [...] 

But since BackSpace is free, why bother?  Will PixelSaver run BackSpace  
3.0 modules with their inspectors as BackSpace 3.0 does?  Besides, I  
can live with the moving loginpanel as being a way to deter burn-in of  
the login panel.

I'll save my money for when people start marketing necessary apps that  
don't have PD/Shareware equivalents.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
Subject: Re: Is the wait over? Upcoming NeXT CD-ROM drive
Reply-To: alberto@parsec.uucp
Organization: I keep everything where I <most likely> can find it.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:51:14 GMT

No the wait is not over. Mine was supposed to ship the week of December 7th. I  
called every other day to see if it had shipped. Today (12/14/92) it had not  
shipped yet................................


-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
From: HARRAPR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon
Date: 19 Dec 92 20:24:33 GMT
 <1992Dec15.120131.5165@lth.se> <1gugnqINNbmt@mirror.digex.com>
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston

The news from Dr. Smith is that NeXT won't be using...
... Sparc
... 88k
... etc.

Everyone seems to be assuming that this means NeXT will go with
the PowerPC. I don't think so.

It would jibe with recent history if NeXT dialed R4000 to dish up
some great performance - with a little help from Silicon Graphics
coming along with the chips.

I recall that NeXT and SGI have had high level meetings in the last
few months, or so the net rumours say. Also, SGI does very well at
the high end of the workstation market, but can't really compete with
SUN.... With a multiprocessor NeXT using MIPS chips at the low end
of the market, and NeXT recommending SGI machines for the high end,
both companies win big time.

I know there have been flame wars in the past over which machine
(Indigo etc. vrs NeXT) has better development tools. Perhaps we'll
soon see machines with the best of both worlds.

Just my misguided, but optimistic opinion.

Rob Harrap
Dept. Geological Sciences
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont.

Harrapr@qucdn.queensu.ca
From: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: X11R5: how to switch to NeXTStep
Date: 16 Dec 1992 23:33:40 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: darmok.uoregon.edu

In article <1992Dec16.015800.8597@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Kenny Leung) writes:
> In article <3044@ulysse.enst.fr> laroche@wayne.enst.fr  
> (Jean Laroche ) writes:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > I just installed X11R5 (the free version, mouse'X) on our NEXT  
machines, and I  
> > wondered if it was possible to switch from X to NeXTStep (via some  
command  
> > stuff).
> > Does anyone know?
> 
> In the old version, it used to be cmd-cmd * on the keypad. It may  
still be right.
> 
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Kenny Leung                      
> Campus Consultant                
> University of Alberta            
> kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca 
> audix x5537                    
> -

No!  Cmd-cmd-* will bootstrap your CPU, and cause your system to reboot!   
DO NOT DO THIS.  The original Mouse X used cmd-cmd-backspace (the rubout  
key above the return key).

-jason
______________________________________________________________________
Jason Fosback, Student Programmer/Consultant| No sir, I didn't like it
       ---- University of Oregon ----       |                 -R&S
Internet:  jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu      | Star Trek:
NeXT mail: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu      |  The NeXT Generation...
From: ricardo@pencom.com (Ricardo Parada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:04:05 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software

Volker Herminghaus-Shirai writes:

> Price comparison:
> 	Intel 486, 50 MHz:	>US$ 400.- in thousands
> 	Sparc "Tsunami", 50 MHz	<US$ 80.- in thousands
> in addition, the Tsunami only needs another four support chips plus RAM
> for a complete system, while the 486 requires many more.
> 
> > Economy of Scale is very important here.
> 
> Yeah! That's why they should *not* stick with a monopolist like intel.
> 

Yes, from what I've read the Sparc Tsunami seems like a good choice.  I think  
they need to consider 3 aspects to decide which chip:

	- That the chip not be single-sourced
	- The technology in the chip itself
	- Excellent support

The 88110 is (was?) a chip with great technology, but won't have excellent  
support.  At least it seems like the Power chip will have excellent support  
and won't be single sourced from my understanding. 

If I had to choose I would find an answer to these questions

	- How good is the technology in the Sparc? (I don't know)
	- How much can the Sparc be enhanced? (a friends told me it
          couldn't go any faster and months later they came up with 
	  a faster version of the chip!)
	- Does more than one company manufacture the chip? TI and ?

The Sparc sounds attractive since there are lots of Sparc computers out there.

--
Ricardo J. Parada