8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
6:56 p.m.
On 10/8/2011 6:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Eh, not strictly true. If you waited long enough (until 1990), you
could pay $4,000 for a NeXTDimension board for your Cube. It was
released to much fanfare and then was basically completely forgotten
about by NeXT.
But it was pretty cool hardware: up to 64mb of onboard memory, an i860
CPU (33Mhz) running its own Mach kernel for accelerating 32-bit color
Display PostScript. 32bpp, video in/out, and talks of an MJPEG
accelerator add-on that never materialized. I have one, it's neat --
but I've never found any software (other than demos) that make much use
of the extra hardware.
- Josh
> Lisa/NeXT
were progreesive attempts towards Jobs' dream. (which was WAY
> different from Woniak's dream!)
> CLOSED. Avoidance of industry standard removable storage.
> HI-res B&W (was Jobs, by any chance, color blind?)
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011,
Toby Thain wrote:
This more reflects the hardware cost realities of
the time, both in
cards and monitors. For a time, post-Jobs Apple sold 12"& 13"
The
original NeXT would not permit color, no matter how much you wanted to
pay.
THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONNECT COLOR.
Meanwhile, those no good competing machines could be trivially upgraded.