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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: sticking with apple -> Nexts
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.064520.21803@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 90 06:45:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep15.101836.5512@uokmax.uucp> <0ax1lv600VpeBXDl9e@andrew.cmu.edu> <13960@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <13960@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.

  That's what I call an abnormal desktop though.  I'd personally LOVE to have
  a workstation on my desk but then again, I plan to be a professional
  engineer  :)

	 Collin Douglas

	 cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

  actually, I'd rathar have an HP/Apollo DN 10000.