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From: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Whtat's the big picture for the 040 NeXT cube?
Keywords: NeXT cube 040
Message-ID: <57792@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 22:20:35 GMT
References: <1558@wet.UUCP> <50939@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <50939@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
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>2nd they tested UNIX features what ever this means. So they tried to
>compare a UNIX-PC that is supposed to run a couple of terminals in
>text mode with a graphics oriented workstations called NeXT and
>another one called DEC3100. Only that the DEC didn't use postscript.
>Now immagine their nice tests producing output: one blasts it on a
>80x25 character display, another one uses X and the NeXT reders the
>output in PstScript. What a fair contest... 
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I don't want to get into a benchmark war.  However, if the Dec3100 wasn't
running display postscript, then what was it running?  Was BYTE running
the DecStation after disabling DPS in some manner?  If so, what window
manager and display library *were* they running?

--
Edward Jung
Microsoft Corp.

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