Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!news
From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Perceived Performance/DSP
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.065714.3528@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 05:45:12 GMT
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Lines: 17

>Also, even though the 56001 is a relatively inexpensive chip (<$50), it's
>still much cheaper for a company to include it with their motherboard than
>to add it in as a separate processor board later.

What really startles me is how little general-purpose software  uses the DSP. I
am not interested in music or electronics. IMHO, NeXT should bundle a simple
speech recognition system, so that Informix can have businessmen talk to their
spreadsheets. Can you say "Up-down-1.24-enter-1.23-next-help"? This would make
businesspeople buy a NeXT. Not the fact that IB is neat, or that the interface
is better or worse than a Mac. Something that is substantially different, new
and unique to every package to be written on NeXT. Why isn't there such a
novelty, yet?

On the other hand, many academics buy a NeXT because it's the best workstation
for the money (particularly after the 68040 upgrade).

/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu