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- From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson)
- Subject: NeXTSTEP 486 Specifications
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:00:54 GMT
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- There have been a lot of questions regarding hardware specs for NeXTSTEP 486.
- Here is a paraphrased summary of what is basically needed to run NeXTSTEP 486.
- These specifications are preliminary, and will most likely change as additional
- hardware is supported. For specific configurations, consult the NeXTSTEP 486
- hardware compatibility guide, or contact NeXT.
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- CPU - 486SX, 486DX, 486 DX/2. Future 80x86 chips will be supported. Need
- an ISA or EISA expansion bus. 486DX and 486DX/2 are reccommended processors.
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- Hard Drive Minimum - 120MB user environment, 330MB developer environment
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- Graphics - Both Greyscale (2bit) and color (16bit) will be supported. For
- 2 bit color (4 shades of grey) most VESA or SVGA cards will do. Popular
- SVGA cards from vendors like Orchid, ATI, Paradise, Video Seven and Compaq
- will work. Supported resolutions: 1024*768, 800*600, 640*480. The RAM
- requirements for 2bit systems is 8MB minimum, 12MB recommended.
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- 16bit color systems - High quality graphics adapters needed. Like Intel
- JAWS (such as Dell's Processor Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies
- Wingine, and certain Local Bus Graphics adapters. Depending on size of
- available VRAM (video RAM) resolutoins of 800*600, 1024*768, 1120*832,
- 1280*1024 will be supported. RAM requirements for 16 bit color are 16 MB
- minimum, 24MB recommended.
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- Both IDE and SCSI interfaces will be supported.
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- Microsoft and Logitec compatible bus, PS/2 port and Serial mice are supported.
- Certain graphics tablets will be supported.
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- Postscript level I and II printers will be suupported, connected through
- either the serial or parallel port. Non postscript printers will be supported
- in a future release.
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- ISA and EISA based networking adaptors will be supported including Ethernet
- and Token ring cards from vendors such as SMC, intel, and 3Com. A networking
- card is optional.
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- Sound Support - Sound Blaster or Pro Audio Spectrum cards are optional.
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- ISDN support - supported through ISA add on cards.
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- FAX modems and fax modem cards will be supported
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- Eric Hermanson
- NeXT Campus Consultant at MIT
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