Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun!mustang!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!andrey From: andrey@astride.cs.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was ) Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 90 04:21:01 GMT References: <4d69e60f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Distribution: usa Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 45 In-Reply-To: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com's message of 18 Oct 90 17:54:03 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: astride.cs.caltech.edu Before all the Amiga owners get panicky over the $3300 NeXTstation, they should know certain things. On 18 Oct 90 17:54:03 GMT, kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) said: KLS> Now let's see if I wanted a comprable Mac system I could buy well???? KLS> Nothing because none of them have 68040 chips in them. Same with KLS> Atari, and Amiga. IBM(clones) are a different story because they KLS> do have i486 which is equal in perf. to a 68040. This is not necessarily true. It all depends on what you want to do. KLS> The NeXT comes with lots of software and some damn good hardware and it KLS> has performance that is better than a Sparc. This is also not true. Again, it depends on what you want your computer to do. KLS> The NeXT also has IB which is terrific if you want to roll your own KLS> software. Also who says there are no applications for the NexT. There KLS> is about 400Mb of FREE; that't right FREE software ditributed Lighthouse KLS> Designs called The First Compilation and it has a $125.00 media fee. KLS> Included is X11 and some other things for MIDI, complete GNU stuff, and KLS> a lot more. Remember that the basic NeXTstation does not come with any compilers. True, you get a license to all of NeXTstep 2.0, but you're going to have to somehow get that software onto your NeXT, and try to shoehorn the stuff you need onto the disk. Also, isn't the Lighthouse compilation on optical disks? The basic NeXTstation at $3300 does not have an optical drive. Adding an optical drive would drive the cost up severely. It's a nice letter writing machine at $3300, but has close to no programming functionality. Andre Yew KLS> -- KLS> /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ KLS> /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ KLS> /* */ KLS> /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */ -- andrey@through.cs.caltech.edu Andre Yew 131.215.128.1 --