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NeXTSTATION COLOR ! NeXTSTATION TURBO COLOR NeXTstation Color In addition to the same powerful core technologies found in all NeXTstation™ computers, computers combine the 25-megahertz NeXTstation Color and 33-megahertz NeXTstation Turbo Color can also display 4,096 colors simultaneously on NeXT’s MegaPixel Color Displays. The ability to near - photographic display true color images makes these systems ideal for publishing, presentations, graphic quality color and design, computer-aided design, data analysis, and virtually all other applications where an object-oriented color display capabilities are required. operating and NeXTstation Color computers—which may be configured with 16 to 128 MB of development memory—take advantage of the color support offered in Display PostScript,® which environment in features the capability of real-time software dithering allowing NeXTstation Color an easy-to-use, computers to display 32-bit-per-pixel images in 16 bits with near- photographic quality. professional color The technical advances featured in the NeXTstation Color product line, combined with an workstation. operating and development environment unequalled in the computer industry, add up to a system capable of handling today’s—and tomorrow’s—true color requirements and applications. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Motorola 68040 Combined central processing A highly integrated microprocessor providing excellent computing (CPU), floating-point (FPU), and performance, high data transfer rate, and exceptional reliability. paged memory management (PMMU) units with 8 kilobytes of on-chip cache memory. 16-bit-per-pixel color NeXTstation Color computers can display 4,096 colors simultaneously, with real-time software dithering of 32-bit images, letting you create images of near-photographic quality. NeXT-designed ICs Turbo Memory Controller (TMC) Supports up to 128 MB of fast, interleaved RAM, with prefetching. Peripheral Controller (PC) Supports off-loading of all seven DMA peripheral channels from the main processor, and is capable of running at 50 MB per second. Motorola 56001 DSP Provides fast processing of large matrix calculations—used for generating CD-quality sound, music, speech, and tone detection. MegaPixel Color Display 1120 x 832 resolution with 92 dpi The 17-inch or 21-inch color displays let you view sharp, clear text and graphics as well as breathtaking color images, with enough space for running multiple applications simultaneously. Eight built-in ports SCSI Support of up to seven SCSI peripherals. Two RS-423 serial ports Allows NeXTstations to be tailored to meet your needs with popular serial-based peripherals such as fax and data modems without using expansion slots. DSP I/O port Supports direct I/O access to the DSP. Display port Provides connection to built-in video. Laser printer port Allows direct connection to NeXT’s 400 dpi Laser Printer. Two Ethernet (twisted and thin) Provides easy connection to virtually any Ethernet network without ports having to purchase additional cards or adaptors. Built-in sound I/O Allows voice input to applications with sound-handling capabilities and provides dual channel CD-quality output. NeXT 2.88 MB floppy disk drive 2.88 MB of storage space using extended density (ED) disks, as well as 720 KB and 1.44 MB disks. Allows for convenient transfer of data files between Macintosh,® OS/2,® and MS-DOS.® 16 MB on-board RAM 4 high-speed SIMM memory Supports 16 and 32 MB SIMMs in two-SIMM increments. sockets expandable to 128 MB When denser chips (16 MB) become available, NeXTstations can be upgraded up to 128 MB. Optional parity support Parity memory checking is available when optional parity RAM is installed. NeXTstep™ UNIX-® based operating environment optimized for multitasking and networking. Offers superior graphical user interface and development environment, with the only object-oriented system software available on the market today. PRODUCT DETAILS 68040 Processor efficiently. Rather than emulating a sound. n BuildDOS n The 68040 is a fast and highly traditional PC or workstation Using the built-in microphone in InstallTablet n integrated microprocessor with architecture, NeXT systems used a the MegaPixel Display™ or an MailManager n clock speeds of either 25 MHz or direct memory access (DMA) external microphone, voice NetInfoManager n 33 MHz. The 68040 contains 1.2 architecture similar to that of messages can be easily added to NetManager n million transistors, more than any mainframe computers for off- electronic mail or used to annotate PrinterTester n other microprocessor in its class. loading I/O functions from the applications. UserManager This incredible number of CPU to the peripheral controller transistors is required because the (PC) chip to maximize system NeXTstep NeXTstep Release 2.2 Extended 68040 is actually four chips in throughput. Based on the industry’s first also includes: one—a central processing unit, a object-oriented system software, floating point unit, a paged RAM Configurations NeXTstep offers an elegant End-User Applications memory management unit, and 8 n ® NeXTstation Color computers graphical user interface and one of Oxford Dictionary of kilobytes of cache memory. are currently available in 16, or 32 the most productive development Quotations The system clock speed is MB RAM configurations. environments available today. n William Shakespeare: The identical to the CPU bus speed, To support the fast memory Complete Works (for Digital providing an average execution transfer capability of the Turbo UNIX Librarian) n ™ time per instruction of 1.3 clock Memory Controller (TMC), NeXT’s operating system is based TEX Document Processing cycles. NeXTstations utilize very-high on the Mach UNIX kernel System (Radical Eye Software) n Developer Tools There are two 4-kilobyte memory speed (70-nanosecond) 72-pin developed at Carnegie Mellon n Interface Builder™ caches, one for data, the other for DRAM SIMMs. University, which features shared n NeXT Compiler for the instructions, along with burst memory, fast interprocess RAM upgrades can be added Objective C Language mode read and write-back communication, multitasking, and incrementally in two-SIMM n C++ Language Compiler caching for improved data network support. increments up to 32 MB of RAM. n Objective C Class Definitions transfers. When denser chips (16 MB) NeXT’s UNIX is compatible with n 56001 DSP Tools become available, NeXTstations UNIX 4.3 BSD (Berkeley n GNU Emacs 56001 DSP can be upgraded up to 128 MB. Software Distribution). n GNU Debugger Built into the NeXTstation’s n ™ Parity memory is also an option, Bug-56 Debugger (Ariel) design is the 56001 DSP, a 25 Display PostScript n and can be ordered on a select Malloc Debugger MHz digital signal processor. With NeXT offers a unified imaging n ™ number of 16 MB configurations. AppInspector 24 K of static RAM cache, model, Display PostScript, for n PostScript Tools upgradable to 96 K, the DSP is imaging on both the screen and n Application Kit™ SCSI dedicated to the task of handling printer. n Music Kit™ SCSI is an expandable high- digital signals—such as sound—at n Sound Kit™ performance interface for exceptional speeds. Bundled Software n On-line technical connecting NeXTstations to hard The DSP is capable of generating Each NeXTstation ships with an documentation disks and other peripherals, such compact-disc-quality sound: 44.1 unprecedented amount of end-user as the NeXT Color Printer, NeXT kHz sampling rate with and development software CD-ROM Drive, scanners, and 16-bit resolution and full stereo. including: other devices. Up to seven SCSI Other uses for the DSP range from peripherals (including the internal receiving still and video images to End-User Applications hard disk) can be connected. n ™ a variety of other data transmission Workspace Manager SCSI data transfer rates are up to n ™ and acquisition activities. NeXTmail 4.8 MBytes per second (SCSI-I n Digital Webster™ (Webster’s implementation). Ninth New Collegiate Network Support Dictionary™ and Collegiate® Built-in networking, both thin and A SCSI-II–type connector was Thesaurus) twisted-pair Ethernet ports are used on NeXTstations to provide n Digital Librarian™ designed into all NeXT™ high data reliability in CPU-to- n Edit computers. peripheral connection. n Mathematica®—for higher Network software and education customers only administrative tools are preloaded n DataViz/Bridge™ on all hard drives to simplify Sound I/O n FaxReader connecting to virtually any NeXT computers have been n Preferences network, with no additional cards designed to accept and process n Preview for PostScript® to purchase, install, or configure. n PrintManager DMA Architecture System Administration NeXT computers were designed Applications to handle the most complex tasks n VT100™ n BuildDisk ! TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS PROCESSORS 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive DISPLAY Motorola 68040 25/33 MHz CPU n 2.88 MB formatted capacity using MegaPixel Color Display OTHER NeXTSTATION COLOR n Integrated Central Processing Unit extended density (ED) disks n 17-inch MegaPixel Color Display SPECIFICATIONS n Integrated Memory Management Unit n 3.5-inch third-height form factor n 16-inch viewable (true flat square) Size n Integrated Floating-Point Unit n Read/Write compatible with 720 KB and n 1120 x 832 resolution at 2 bits/pixel n 15.66 in. (h) x 14.35 in. (w) x 2.5 in. (d) n Integrated 8-kilobyte instruction/data 1.44 MB disks in UNIX, MS–DOS, and n 68 Hz refresh rate, noninterlaced (397.8 mm x 364.5 mm x 64 mm) caches Macintosh formats n 92 dots