Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!lectroid!bigbootay!jmann From: jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: BusinessLand (reasonable) Message-ID: <1761@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 20 Jul 90 13:05:44 GMT References: <1990Jul16.205459.6101@midway.uchicago.edu> <132@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering. Lines: 7 A Mac with 4 Meg of memory is about equivalent to a NeXT with 8 Meg so you don't have to add 4 Meg to the Mac to compare them. (By equivalent, I mean that you can open start several programs compfortable and switch back and forth with reasonable speed. Of course the Mac would do better with 8 Meg, but then the NeXT for some things really wants 12 or even 16 Meg). Jim