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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT vs Sun3
Keywords: Next Sun3
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Date: 21 Oct 89 17:03:10 GMT
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The question to answer first with the purchase of any workstation is to
what application use you are going to put the machine to.
Neither has a particularly large applications base compared to PCs,
although Sun has more.
If you wish to write programs, particularly graphics, NeXT has better tools.
My work requires color, so I have to use Suns now.
FORTRAN is easier to implement some types of number crunching, and NeXT
doesn't offer it yet.
And so on ... evaluate your applications.