NeXTstation is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. It runs the NeXTSTEP operating system .
6-519: 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
12-529: A 68040 system board upgrade (and NeXTSTEP 2.0) for US$ 1,495 (equivalent to $ 3,490 in 2023). A 33 MHz NeXTcube Turbo was later produced. NeXT released the NeXTdimension for the NeXTcube, a circuit board based on an Intel i860 processor, which offers 32-bit PostScript color display and video-sampling features. The Pyro accelerator board replaces the standard 25 MHz processor with
18-462: Is housed in a similar cube-shaped magnesium enclosure, designed by frog design . The workstation runs the NeXTSTEP operating system and was launched with a $ 7,995 (equivalent to about $ 19,000 in 2023) list price. The NeXTcube is the successor to the original NeXT Computer, with a 68040 processor, a hard disk in place of the magneto-optical drive , and a floppy disk drive. NeXT offered
24-409: The NeXTstation a rarity today. The NeXTstation originally shipped with a NeXT MegaPixel Display 17" monitor (with built-in speakers ), keyboard, and mouse. It is nicknamed "the slab", since the pizza box form factor contrasts quite sharply with the original NeXT Computer 's basic shape (otherwise known as "the cube"). The Pyro accelerator board increases the speed of a NeXTstation by replacing
30-530: The rights to the design of and patents pertaining to the NeXTstation. They later released the Object.Station, an x86 -based workstation using the NeXTstation design, in 1994. Canon had been a large stakeholder in NeXT since 1989. NeXTcube The NeXTcube is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT from 1990 to 1993. It superseded the original NeXT Computer workstation and
36-593: The standard 25 MHz processor with a 50 MHz one. 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 NeXTstation Turbo by replacing the standard 33 MHz processor with a 40 MHz one. John Carmack developed the PC Game Doom on a NeXTStation Color. After NeXT ceased manufacturing hardware in 1993, Canon Computer Systems (a subsidiary of Canon Inc. ) acquired
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