NeXT cubes or slabs.

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Jun 25 11:28:16 1998

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Poesie wrote:

> Does anyone on the list collect NeXT systems? I had the chance to see
> one the other day and now I am hooked... but they wanted 500 bucks for a
> 33mhz turbo color cube (IIRC...) w/ a 21" sony monitor. in any case,

I have a couple of NeXT machines and also use NEXTSTEP daily on my pentium
system.

If it's actually a cube system, and has actual colour video, $500 is a
very good price for it for the reasons mentioned in other messages. The
NeXTdimension is a very cool piece of hardware.

Truecolour DPS engine (the Turbocolour stations were only 12-bit colour),
composite and S-Video in/out, onboard i860 processor with up to 128 MB of
its own RAM, installable in matched sets of four 72 pin non-parity page
mode SIMMs.

> reasonable cost for these systems? after using afterstep for linux, i
> would love to use nextstep and use the real thing.

Afterstep is a sad joke compared to the real thing. (: After having used
NEXTSTEP as my primary OS for several years, I can confidently say that I
have yet to be frustrated by its UI. And that's not something I can say of
anything else I've used. And I've spent time on a LOT of UIs.

NEXTSTEP was introduced in 1988; version 3.0 in 1993 brought support for
Intel processors. Later sub-releases brought support for SPARC and HP
PA-RISC as well. The UI has remained more-or-less the same since its
introduction. The addition of colour came as a patch for 2.1.

ok
r.
Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 11:28:16 BST