NeXTstation

The next stop was the manufacturer NeXT, which was introduced in 1990 and succeeded the NeXTcube a computer.

The Next Station featured a Motorola 68040 processor running at 25 MHz in the normal or 33 MHz in Turbo variant. The two device variants possessed by default black and white graphics, but there was also the possibility of the devices with color graphics to get ( as a Color model), thus there was a total of four model variants. Furthermore possessed all models over 8 MB of memory, which could be expanded to up to 32 MB ( or 128 MB in the "Turbo" variant), a SCSI hard disk with a capacity of 105 MB and a floppy disk drive and an Ethernet port ( 10BASE-T and 10BASE -2).

The normal monochrome version of the Next Station cost in appearance, with a 17 " monitor, about 10,000 D- Mark ( according to current purchasing power about 8,100 euros ) or 4,995 U.S. dollars.

Was delivered the Next Station to NeXTStep 2.0, but it also ran the later versions like 3.0 or 3.3 easily it. Also NeXTSTEP OPENSTEP successor ran on the Next Station to version 4.2. As an alternative, can be installed on the Next Station NetBSD.

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