12 x 12 x 12 ref http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTfiles Docs Hardware nextcube.pdf NeXTcube brochure ... NeXTarchive http old computers.com museum computer.asp?c 277 old computers.com NeXTcube http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTComputers.org NeXT Computer computer stub DEFAULTSORT Nextcube Category Computer workstations Category NeXT Category History of the Internet Category Steve Jobs de NeXTcube fa fr NeXT Cube it NeXTcube ja NeXTcube sr Next Computers NeXT Cube ... more details
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Unsourced image removed Image ndbig.jpg thumb Unsourced image removed Image ndfront.jpg thumb NeXTdimension ND was an accelerated 32 bit color board manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 that gave the NeXTcube color capabilities with PostScript . The NuBus card was a full size card for the NeXTcube, filling one of four slots, another one being filled with the main board itself. The NeXTdimension featured S Video input and output, RGB output, an Intel i860 64 bit RISC processor at 33MHz for Postscript acceleration, 8 32MB RAM main memory and 4MB Video RAM VRAM for a resolution of 1120 832 at 24 bit color plus 8 bit alpha channel. An onboard C Cube CL550 chip for MJPEG video compression was announced, but never shipped. A handful of engineering prototypes for the MJPEG daughterboard exist, but none actually function. A stripped down Mach kernel Mach kernel was used as the operating system for the card. Due to the supporting processor 32 bit color Display PostScript on the NeXTdimension was faster than 2 bit grayscale Display PostScript on the NeXTcube. Since the main board always included the grayscale video logic, adding a NeXTdimension allowed the simultaneous use of two monitors. List price for a NeXTdimension sold as an add on to the NeXTcube was US 3,995. External links http www.vamp.org next www.vamp.org next Site for ND owners, featuring ND mailing list, ND faq and more http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTComputers.org NeXT Computer Category NeXT fr NeXTdimension ... more details
Richard Page was the manager of the Apple Lisa Lisa group at Apple Computer in the 1980s, and he later joined Steve Jobs at NeXT . In 1992 Page left Next due to low sales of Next products Nextcube and Nextstation . Weeks after his resignaiton, several VP at Next left too. External links http www.folklore.org ProjectView.py?project Macintosh&characters Rich 20Page&detail medium Folklore.org Rich Page stories http lowendmac.com orchard 06 steve jobs next years.html low end mac The NeXT Years DEFAULTSORT Page, Rich Category Living people Category Apple Inc. employees compu bio stub ... more details
Image NeXTstation.jpg right thumb 250px The NeXT MegaPixel Display, sitting on top of a NeXTstation with the original keyboard & mouse The NeXT MegaPixel Display was a range of Cathode ray tube CRT based computer monitor s manufactured and sold by NeXT for the NeXTcube and NeXTstation workstations. It was available in 17 and 21 models that were capable of resolutions up to 1120 x 832 at 92 dots per inch DPI . A microphone and Computer speaker speaker was also integrated into the later versions of the monochrome monitors. Both were sold separately to the NeXT Computer workstation computer workstations . External links http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTComputers.org NeXT Computer Category NeXT computer stub ... more details
The NeXT RISC Workstation , or NRW , was an unreleased computer workstation designed by NeXT during the early 1990s as a successor to the m68k based NeXTcube and NeXTstation . Initially the NRW was to be based on the Motorola 88110 microprocessor , but due to a lack of confidence in Motorola s commitment to the 88k architecture, it was later redesigned around dual PowerPC 601 s. ref cite web title Hardware was great while it lasted work NeXTWORLD author Simson L. Garfinkel date March 1993 url http www.simson.net ref NeXT nextworld NextWorld Extra 93.03.Mar.NWE 93.03.Mar.NWExtra21.html accessdate 2007 04 30 ref ref cite web title Canon to buy NeXT factory, design center work NeXTWORLD author Dan Lavin date March 1993 url http www.simson.net ref NeXT nextworld NextWorld Extra 93.03.Mar.NWE 93.03.Mar.NWExtra07.html accessdate 2007 04 30 ref Pre production motherboards and enclosures were produced, but the NRW did not enter production before NeXT exited the hardware market in 1993. References reflist External links http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTfiles Images Rare NeXT Hardware NRW NeXT RISC Workstation Photos of NRW motherboard and enclosure Category NeXT Category Computer workstations compu hardware stub ... more details
The NeXT Laser Printer NeXT PN N2000 was a 400 DPI PostScript laser printer sold by NeXT from late 1988 to 1993 for the NeXTstation and NeXTcube workstation s and manufactured by Canon Inc. Canon . It included an adjustable paper tray, enabling it to print several paper sizes including A4 paper A4 , Letter paper size letter size , legal, and envelopes. It was very similar to other printers based on the Canon SX engine, such as the Apple LaserWriter II series and HP LaserJet II III, although those other printers only printed at 300x300 dpi. Some parts such as the toner cartridge and input paper tray are interchangeable with the HP LaserJet LaserJet II III . The printer used a proprietary high speed serial interface, and was essentially an early Graphics Device Interface GDI printers WinPrinter although it was not Windows compatible , as it used the Display PostScript DisplayPostscript renderer in NeXTStep rather than a hardware PostScript renderer. Despite this it usually achieved close to its rated speed of 8 ppm, as the NeXTStation had a much faster CPU 25 or 33MHz 68040 and greater memory capacity up to 128MB in Turbo models than the rendering engines of contemporary printers. Because NeXTStep used DisplayPostscript extensively in its windowing system, the postscript rendering path was optimized Citation needed date July 2009 , and printed documents had a true output WYSIWYG corresponding to the screen. NeXT also produced a color inkjet printer, the SCSI SCSI I connected, Tabloid capable, 360 DPI Color Bubblejet model NeXT PN N2004 US N2005 UK , based on Canon BubbleJet technology. External links and references http www.levenez.com NeXTSTEP NeXTprinter.html NeXTprinter http www.levenez.com NeXTSTEP NeXTcolor Printer.html NeXT color printer http www.nextcomputers.org NeXTComputers.org NeXT Computer DEFAULTSORT Next Laser Printer Category NeXT compu hardware stub ... more details
Infobox computer Photo Image NeXTstation.jpg 260px NeXTstation Type Workstation Workstation computer Released 1990 Discontinued 1993 Processor Motorola 68040 Memory 8 MB 32 MB br 8 MB 128 MB small Turbo small OS NeXTSTEP , OPENSTEP , NetBSD limited support Baseprice US 4,995 NeXTstation was a high end workstation workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. It ran the NeXTSTEP operating system . The NeXTstation was released as a more affordable alternative to the NeXTcube at about US 4,995 or about half the price. Several models were produced, including the NeXTstation 25 MHz , NeXTstation Turbo 33 MHz , NeXTstation Color 25 MHz and NeXTstation Turbo Color 33 MHz . In total, NeXT sold about 50,000 computers not including sales to government organizations , making the NeXTstation today a rarity as many units have since stopped working. The NeXTstation came with a NeXT MegaPixel 17 Computer monitor monitor with built in Computer speaker speaker s and a keyboard and mouse. It was affectionately known as the slab , since the flat shape contrasted quite sharply with the original NeXT Computer otherwise known as the cube . Specifications Keyboard Full stroke mechanical, 85 keys, Mouse 2 button opto mechanical Central processing unit Motorola 68040 , 25 MHz or 33 MHz Turbo Memory 8 MB 8 mebibyte MiB 12 MB for a NeXTstation Color , up to 32 MB in non Turbo models, 128 MB in Turbos Display resolution 1120 832 Colors NeXTstation 4 black, white and two shades of gray NeXTstation Color 4,096 colors 12 bit with 4 bit alpha channel Digital signal processor Motorola 56001 25 MHz 16 bits, 44.1 kHz, stereo , 24 kB 24 kibibyte KiB RAM upgradable to 576 kB Computer speaker Speaker built in the monitor Size Weight 39.8 W x 36.5 D x 6.4 H cm 6 kg Input Output SCSI internal connector, SCSI2 external port, DSP, video output, proprietary port for NeXT laser printer, two RS 423 serial ports, 10BASE T and 10B ... more details
lowercase xBill Xbill is also a colloquial abbreviation for Crossbill . Image Gnome xbill level 20 gnome games 1.4.0.3 sshot20040803.png thumb right Gnome XBill level 20. Image XBill.png left XBill icon. XBill is an arcade style game for the X Window System . It was very popular among Linux gamers at the end of the 1990s , beating out Quake video game Quake , though not Quake II , as Linux Journal reader s favourite Linux game in 1999. ref http www.linuxjournal.com article 3731?page 0,3 1999 Reader s Choice Awards Linux Journal ref Written by Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte , ref name xbill http www.xbill.org ref the game features a bespectacled character known as Bill Gates Bill . Your goal is to prevent Bill s legions of clones from installing Microsoft Windows Wingdows , a computer virus virus cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system , on a variety of computers running other operating systems. The operating systems are represented by logos shown on the computer screens. The computers you have to defend include personal computer PCs running Linux and BSD , SPARCstation s with Solaris operating system Solaris , Silicon Graphics SGI IRIX workstations, Apple Macintosh Apple Macs , Palm pilot s, and NeXTcube s. When Bill installs Wingdows onto a computer, its current operating system is placed beside it. Using your computer mouse mouse , you can slap Bill and drag discarded operating systems back to their computers. At the end of the level, you get points for every computer that is still running its original operating system. On later levels, computers are connected to each other with Local Area Network LAN cables, causing Wingdows to spread faster. Some computers may also catch fire. This can be cured by dragging buckets of water onto them. The game was later, deliberately ironically, ported to Microsoft Windows ref http www.azzit.de xbill XBill for Wingdows ref as well as to Mac OS X ref http mac.softpedia.com get Games XBill.shtml XBill Mac Softp ... more details
. The new range included a revised NeXT Computer, renamed the NeXTcube , and the NeXTstation , nicknamed ... Color and the NeXTdimension Video card graphics processor hardware for the NeXTcube. The new computers ..., NeXT launched Turbo variants of the NeXTcube and NeXTstation with a 33 MHz 68040 processor and maximum ... Carmack John Carmack used a NeXTcube to build two of his pioneering games, Wolfenstein 3D and Making ... used by the NeXTcube and NeXTstation. NeXT started porting the NeXTSTEP operating system to PC ... release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP, when other companies started to emulate NeXT s object oriented ... more details
Infobox OS name NeXTSTEP screenshot Image NeXTSTEP desktop.jpg 300px caption Nextstep graphical user interface developer NeXT family Unix like version number Varies source model Closed source latest release version 3.3 latest release date 1995 kernel type Hybrid kernel Hybrid ui Graphical user interface Graphical programmed in C Programming Language C , Objective C license Proprietary software Proprietary EULA working state Historic is code base for Mac OS X website supported platforms Motorola 68000 , Intel x86 , SPARC , PA RISC NeXTSTEP also written NeXTstep , NeXTStep , and NEXTSTEP ref name kevra cite web url http www.kevra.org TheBestOfNext DifferentNeXTSpellings DifferentNeXTSpellings.html title What s with all the NeXT names? last Ford first Kevin year 2008 work www.kevra.org accessdate 2009 09 07 ref is the Object oriented operating system object oriented , computer multitasking multitasking operating system developed by NeXT NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube , and later, other computer architecture s. NeXTSTEP 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989, after several previews starting in 1986 Citation needed date April 2010 . The last version, 3.3, was released in early 1995, by which time it ran not only on the Motorola 68000 family processors used in NeXT computers, but also Intel x86 , Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC , and HP PA RISC based systems. Apple Inc. Apple s Mac OS X is a direct descendant of NeXTSTEP. Description NeXTSTEP was a combination of several parts a Unix like operating system based on the Mach kernel , plus source code from Berkeley Software Distribution BSD Display PostScript and a windowing engine the Objective C language and runtime an object oriented programming object oriented OO application layer, including several kits development tools for the OO layers NeXTSTEP was notable for the last three items. The toolkits offered considerable power, and were used to build all of the softw ... more details
About the first web browser the distributed hypertext system World Wide Web Infobox software name WorldWideWeb logo Image WorldWideWeb Icon.png screenshot File WorldWideWeb FSF GNU.png 250px caption WorldWideWeb, c.1993 developer Tim Berners Lee for CERN released start date and age 1990 12 23 ref name faq www frequently updated yes discontinued yes programming language Objective C ref name faq www operating system NeXTSTEP ref name faq www language English genre Web browser , web authoring tool license Public domain website http www.w3.org People Berners Lee WorldWideWeb.html www.w3.org ... WorldWideWeb.html WorldWideWeb , later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion about the software and the World Wide Web , was the first web browser ref name faq www cite web title The WorldWideWeb browser url http www.w3.org People Berners Lee WorldWideWeb publisher World Wide Web Consortium accessdate 23 July 2010 authorlink Tim Berners Lee first Tim last Berners Lee ref and editor. ref name IEEE When it was written, WorldWideWeb was the only way to view the Web. ref name faq www The source code was released into the public domain in 1993. ref cite web title Index of History 1991 WWW NeXT Implementation url http www.w3.org History 1991 WWW NeXT Implementation publisher World Wide Web Consortium accessdate 18 August 2010 ref ref name faq Some of the code still resides on Tim Berners Lee s NeXTcube in the CERN museum and has not been recovered due to the computer s status as a historical artifact. Citation needed date May 2010 History Berners Lee wrote WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer ref name faq cite web title Frequently asked questions What were the first WWW browsers? url http www.w3.org People Berners Lee FAQ.html browser publisher World Wide Web Consortium accessdate 22 July 2010 last Berners Lee first Tim authorlink Tim Berners Lee ref during the second half of 1990, while working for CERN . The first successful build was completed on December 25, 1990, after only two months of ... more details
in Ethernet port . The NeXTcube was described by Jobs as an interpersonal computer, which ... with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by such things as the NeXTcube s magnesium ... more details
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