Microsoft KB Archive/61321

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NeXT Computer Specifications
Last reviewed: September 16, 1996

Article ID: Q61321

SUMMARY
The following are the specifications of the NeXT computer:

Processors --

Motorola 68030 25 MHz CPU Motorola 68882 25 MHz floating-point unit Motorola 56001 25 MHz Digital Signal Processor Integrated channel processor 12 DMA channels 32 MB per second bandwidth

RAM ---

8 to 16 MB, in 4 MB increments

Communications and Interfaces -

Thin-wire EtherNet, IEEE 802.3a compatible 2 RS422 serial ports SCSI interface with transfer rate of 4.8 MB per second

Display Keyboard

85-key, including numerical pad, monitor brightness, sound volume, power on/off

Mouse -

Two-button opto-mechanical mouse

Hard Disk -

330 MB SCSI, 660 MB SCSI, 256 MB optical drive with NeXT interface using optical storage processor

Bundled Software

System Software:

Mach/UNIX (4.3bsd compatible)

Networking:

TCP/IP NFS

NextStep:

Window Server NeXT Window System Display PostScript Application Kit Interface Builder Workspace Manager Objective-C 4.0 GNU C Compiler GNU GDB Debugger GNU Emacs Allegro CL Common Lisp Ariel Bug-56, symbolic DSP Assembler Motorola ASM5600 DSP Assembler NeXT SQL Database Server from Sybase, Inc.     Sound Kit, Music Kit TranScript Berkeley UNIX utilities NextStep programming examples and demonstrations

Applications

Mail: an electronic mail system with voice mail Edit: a window-based program/text editor WriteNow: a full-feature word processor Mathematica: a mathematics application from Wolfram Research, Inc.  Digital Librarian: a searching and indexing tool Terminal: a VT-100 terminal emulator TeX: a typesetting application Digital Library Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations The Oxford University Press Edition of William Shakespeare: The Complete Works NeXt technical documentation and user manuals Documentation for bundled applications