Cubic NeXT
The NeXT Cube was a work station top-of-the-range, produced and sold by NeXT of 1988 to 1993.
This machine used the operating system NeXTSTEP. At the time of its exit, in the Nineties, NeXT Cube was a machine with the modern and futuristic design. Several models were produced, including NeXT Cube 030 (25 MHz), 040 (25 MHz) and the Turbo one (33 MHz). It costs at the time 6500 US$. NeXT Cube was provided with a monitor NeXT MegaPixel 17" (with integrated loudspeakers), a keyboard and a mouse.
The processor 68030 was shouldered by a FPU 68882 for calculation fast mathematics, a DSP 56001 for multi-media work like two controllers 6-channels with Direct access with the memory (DMA), making it possible to discharge the principal processor from a good number of operations of i/o and thus to accelerate the speed of execution of the common tasks.
Later, NeXT left the NeXTdimension for the Cube, a chart based on a chipset Intel i860, offering a posting color 32-bit PostScript. The Cube was marketed without success, certainly because of its high price. However, some (and still) are always used in the world as a waiter S.
NeXT Cube accepted a certain notoriety since it was used by Tim Berners-Lee as a first Web server, like for the design of the first Navigateur Web and the WorldWideWeb.
See too
- NeXTstation
External bonds
- NeXTarchive.net - The Last Outpost: Alive This Community keeps NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody with new software and patches
- old-computers.com - NeXTcube
- NeXTComputers.org
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