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The NeXTStation  Color                         


Features and Benefits
Motorola 68040 Combined central processing (CPU), floating-point (FPU) and paged memory management (PMMU) units with 8 kilobytes of on-chip cache memory.
 A highly integrated microprocessor providing excellent computing performance, high data transfer rate, and exceptional reliability.
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 Memory controller
 


Peripheral controller
 Supports up to 128 MB of fast, interleaved RAM, with prefetching.

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.
Color PostScript

 


Eight built-in ports SCSI
 

Two RS-423 serial ports
 
 
 


DSP I/O port
 


Display port
 
Laser printer port
 

Two Ethernet (twisted and thin) ports
Support of up to seven SCSI peripherals.
Allows NeXT stations to be tailored to meet your needs with popular serial-based peripherals such as fax and data modems without using expansion slots.

Supports direct I/O access to the DSP.


Provides connection to built-in video.

Allows direct connection to NeXT’s 400 dpi Laser Printer.

Provides easy connection to virtually any Ethernet network without having to purchase additional cards or adapters. The high performance Ethernet allows you to share large color images over a network.
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 sockets expandable to 128 MB
Supports 16 and 32 MB SIMMs in two-SIMM increments.

When denser chips (16 MB) become available, NeXTstation can be upgraded 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.