[rescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #2087 - 17 msgs

[Andrew Weiss]

>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:19:48 -0500
> From: "Reagen B. Ward" <ward at zilla.nu>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] NeXTstation N1100
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:19:26AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
>> I would look into the HP boxes that are supported by NS for PA-RISC;
>> they will no doubt be much faster, especially since the PA-RISC chips
>> are lightning fast at floating point, which is what a lot of the 
>> Display
>> PostScript stuff uses.
>
> Unfortunately, no OS4.2 support under PA-RISC.  Fastest box for
> NeXTStep/OpenStep is probably a Thunderbird or P3/P4 these days.  It ran
> pretty well on an SS5-110 with a 24bit fb, but a basic Mach64 in a PC
> was a good bit snappier.
>
> Reagen
>

Hey if I was just gonna run Openstep 4.2 (the copy I have)... I would 
use a nasty PeeCee.  It's not the total NeXT experience without a nice 
magnesium NeXT cube.  Speed Schmeed... it's the nostalgia as well.

Andrew