The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary - Part 70 fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context | Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary Mellon and the University of Michigan. The original NeXT was grayscale with color added in later versions. The first NeXT was cube-shaped with later hardware resembling more conventional desktop flat systems known as NeXT stations. The first NeXT was based on the Motorola 68030 processor with a built-in 68882 math coprocessor and it came standard with 8 MBytes of RAM. At the time most computers had 1 to 4 MBytes of RAM. The original price was 6500 and marketing efforts were aimed at higher education institutions although business owners expressed early interest due to the networking capabilities of the system. The first edition of CRC s Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary was written on a NeXT computer and even though the basic technology is over 10 years old the computer hardware and operating system have stood the test of time in essentially their original form. The simple stunningly aesthetic graphical user interface still beats most systems hands-down the powerful object-oriented Unixbased operating system and shell connect seamlessly with the Internet and the multitasking operating system allows dozens of processes to run happily at the same time. In over 3 years of 24-hour a day operations running multiple desktop publishing Web browsing and illustration programs at the same time the author s machine didn t crash once. That s an enviable track record. After using a dozen different types of computers daily for over 20 years the author has seen few systems that equal it Sun systems provide similar performance . The NeXT is an excellent networking computer connecting easily to the Internet other NeXT systems and other types of computers through TCP IP. It is also an excellent Internet portal with a full complement of Unix tools including Telnet FTP and others easily downloadable from the Net. Omni Web by Lighthouse Design Ltd. is a powerful Internet graphical browser forNeXTStep that preceded many well-known graphical .
