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NeXTcube Turbo, the Glossary

The NeXTcube Turbo is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT.^[1]

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Color depth

Color depth or colour depth (see spelling differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.

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Die casting

Die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mold cavity.

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Digital signal processor

A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Motorola 56000

The Motorola DSP56000 (also known as 56K) is a family of digital signal processor (DSP) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor (later Freescale Semiconductor then NXP) starting in 1986 with later models are still being produced in the 2020s.

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Motorola 68040

The Motorola 68040 ("sixty-eight-oh-forty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990.

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NetBSD

NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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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 developed web software. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXT are Steve Jobs.

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NeXT character set

The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXT character set are NeXT.

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NeXT Computer

NeXT Computer (also called the NeXT Computer System) is a workstation computer that was developed, marketed, and sold by NeXT Inc. It was introduced in October 1988 as the company's first and flagship product, at a price of, aimed at the higher-education market. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXT Computer are 68k-based computers, computer workstations, History of the Internet, NeXT and Steve Jobs.

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NeXT MegaPixel Display

The NeXT MegaPixel Display is a range of CRT-based computer monitors manufactured and sold by NeXT for the NeXTcube and NeXTstation workstations, designed by Hartmut Esslinger/Frog Design Inc. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXT MegaPixel Display are NeXT.

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NeXTcube

The NeXTcube is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT from 1990 to 1993. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXTcube are 68k-based computers, computer workstations, History of the Internet, NeXT and Steve Jobs.

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NeXTdimension

The NeXTdimension (ND) is an accelerated 32-bit color board manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1991 that gave the NeXTcube color capabilities with PostScript planned. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXTdimension are NeXT.

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NeXTstation

NeXTstation is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXTstation are 68k-based computers, computer workstations and NeXT.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. NeXTcube Turbo and NeXTSTEP are NeXT.

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NuBus

NuBus is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project. NeXTcube Turbo and NuBus are NeXT.

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OpenStep

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. NeXTcube Turbo and OpenStep are NeXT.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Power Mac G4 Cube

The Power Mac G4 Cube is a Mac personal computer sold by Apple Computer, Inc. between July 2000 and 2001.

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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.

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