Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: sticking with apple -> Nexts Message-ID: <13960@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 Sep 90 20:28:30 GMT References: <1990Sep15.101836.5512@uokmax.uucp> <0ax1lv600VpeBXDl9e@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article <0ax1lv600VpeBXDl9e@andrew.cmu.edu> cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes: -Collin Douglas writes: -The NeXT wasn't designed for desktop use. At least, not your 'normal' -desktop. Who really needs a 25 Mhz desktop machine unless you are doing -some REALLY heavy duty stuff. -The NeXT is designed to be a low cost, highly graphically oriented -machine capable of operating as a Unix workstation over a distributed -filing system. It is also aimed as a competitor against the Mac // line -as a high end "personal" (or "desktop", if you like) computer. It is a -very powerful machine that is really nice to work with. I know from personal experience that professional engineers find the NeXT very appealing. Note that you need all the CPU power you can get in order to support high-resolution color-graphics user interfaces. We use comparable (actually graphically superior) products (SGI Iris 4Ds), and there are times when even they aren't responding fast enough to keep up with the user's pace of working.