6/18/1991
Num 1 Vol 1
ANuG
Newsletter

The Albuquerque NeXT Users Group
Sponsored by Jeff Jortner
jnjortn@cs.sandia.gov

Intro:
       Greetings!  My name is Greg Burd.  I have spoken with Jeff Jortner and with his approval I will try to put together a monthly newsletter for the Albuquerque NeXT Users Group (ANuG).  You have expressed interest in being involved, there are not many NeXT owners out there yet), so this users group will serve to get the most out of the investment that we have made, and to help to overcome the isolation of the NeXT owners.  Also I will try to monitor current news, trends, hardware and software introductions, and other information of concern to the NeXT community.  Any information you might have in these areas would be greatly appreciated (email it to me).  As far as I know this is the first action of this users group, so if there are any suggestions (like don't be so verbose) again please address them to me I would like to have a "Letters to the Editor" section in upcoming editions.  As of now the only medium for the exchange of this information is email.  No meetings have been scheduled or for that matter even thought of.

       Now on to business.  As of now there are six people interested in this users group (including Jeff and myself).  I would like to compose some sort of member list.  So if you could send the following information to me at:
            gburd@triton.unm.edu
       I would greatly appreciate it.  Also if you don't want some part of the information to be public (for example you don't like phone calls) just place a '**' before it (ex. **PH# 243-4670) and it will be omitted.

    Full Name:
    Mundane Address:
    Unix Address:
    PH#:
    Equipment used:
    Specialty:
    Suggestions:

 Thanks for you time : )

NeWS:
       InfoWorld (6/10) reports the possibility of a CPU change for future NeXT machines.  There is rumor of the development of a RISC based NeXT Station Color based on the soon to be finished Motorola 88110. This chip is reported to run at 50 MIPS, quite an improvement over the 15 MIPS 68040.  This chip is not compatible with the the 680x0 series chip.  The chip family change has caused concern in a large part of the NeXT community because of its incompatibility and possible upgrade cost.  Officially NeXT is silent on the subject, but with the faster Sun SparcStation II and other unix work stations in the market, it must be hard for NeXt to ignore the speed of the 88110.

       For information on the NeXT there is a very active NeXT Forum on Compuserve (go NEXTFORUM).  The official NeXT representative is Mac Gillion, Software Engineer Software Release Control NeXT Computer (72217,2460).

       For anyone who is interested in what Lotus is doing this summer after their release of Improv, spreadsheet of the Gods, they are going to be putting on some seminars.  I received a piece of mail from Lotus because of my ties in the DOS world, so this isn't NeXT information, but it is still interesting.  There are conferences in Denver on 7/23 on Lotus Government Solutions and on 8/20 on Great Graphics, in Albuquerque on 7/24 on both of the above mentioned topics, and in Houston on 7/25 there is a meeting concerning the Lotus 1-2-3 release 2.3 and Ami Pro (for those stuck with Win3.0).  The number to call is 1-800-327-6148.

       If there is anything you would like to see in upcoming newsletters or anything that should be changed or removed, your comments are encouraged.   : )

Thanks again for enduring this LARGE piece of mail, and please respond.

Gregory Burd
gburd@triton.unm.edu
PH# 243-4670