Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!jasona
From: jasona@sugar.hackercorp.com (Jason Asbahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: DSP question
Summary: NeXT no-belt
	 (Less than Beginner)
Keywords: DSPBootFile, dsp errors
Message-ID: <4083@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 5 Aug 89 07:41:35 GMT
References: <5753@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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(This has nothing to do with DSP questions...)
 
   Greets, all.  I'm a junior in high school interested in the NeXT.
I recently attended a Unix/Xenix meeting where I first "met" the personal
mainframe.  Ok, I'm impressed out of my senses - but I want to know more.
 
Ok, first question...  I have been told that there Will Soon Be a color
video option for the NeXT.  How soon?  And what kind of modifications will
be necessary to a b/w NeXT to have color?  And at what cost?  (Rough
estimates)
 
Maybe I'm being green-screen-retentive, but is there any way to *kill*
the GUI?  To tear it all down and just have text?  I probably won't do
that very often, but it would be reassuring to have the power.  :)
 
I've also heard that the NeXT will be able to (can?) run Mac wares.  Nice,
but is it true?  And how will I stick the 3.5s into an optical drive?
Data transfer works for public domain, yes, but what about commercial
software?
 
Is it practical to buy a NeXT now (within the next year), or should
I wait for better versions?  
 
Also, if anyone has any text information from NeXT, Inc. or tech data for
the not-yet initiated, feel free to dump it in my mailbox here at sugar.
 
   Thanks,
 
         -Jason Asbahr