The NeXTcube Turbo is a high-end
workstation
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or computational science, scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating syste ...
computer developed, manufactured and sold by
NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later develope ...
. It superseded the earlier
NeXTcube workstation and is housed in the same cube-shaped magnesium enclosure. It runs the
NeXTSTEP operating system.
Hardware
The NeXTcube Turbo is a development of the earlier NeXTcube. It differs from its predecessor in having a 33 MHz
68040 processor.
The
NeXTdimension
The NeXTdimension (ND) is an accelerated 32-bit color board manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1991 board can also be used in the NeXTcube Turbo.
There was also a very rare accelerator board known as the Nitro; between 5 and 20 are estimated to have been made. It increased the speed of a NeXTcube Turbo by replacing the standard 33 MHz processor with a 40 MHz one.
Specifications
* Display: 1120×832 17" grayscale
MegaPixel Display
*
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP
* CPU: 33 MHz 68040 with integrated
floating-point unit
A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multip ...
*
Digital signal processor: 25 MHz
Motorola DSP56001
* RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 128 MB (Four 72-pin
SIMM slots)
* Floppy Drive: 2.88 MB (optional)
* Hard Drive: 400 MB, 1.4 GB or 2.8 GB
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...
drive
* Expansion: four
NeXTbus slots (mainboard uses one slot)
* Size (H × W × D): 12" × 12" × 12"
NeXTcube brochure
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See also
* NeXT Computer
* NeXTstation
* NeXT character set
* Power Mac G4 Cube
References
External links
old-computers.com — NeXTcube
NeXTComputers.org
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