Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!att!watmath!maytag!watdragon!crocus!vehaag From: vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Mac Message-ID: <1990Oct25.161552.18393@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 16:15:52 GMT References: <87ocR1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Oct24.154829.23431@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 23 In article zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes: >The NeXT has daemons running in the background doing 'useful' things. >But aren't these tasks useful only because the NeXT needs them? What >do the background tasks do that a Mac user would find useful? I am a neophyte to the NeXT world ( I don't own one, but want to own one, and likely will soon ) and I have a Mac currently so this thread here really interests me. From a >practical< standpoint, what differences would I notice as a Mac user switching to a NeXT (ie. something that my mother would notice as a 'neat' thing that she could never fo before while using my Mac)? If an answer to this question would be below the scope of this group, I would heartily appreciate a response by email. viktor@watdcs.UWaterloo.edu -- "We murder to dissect" Wordsworth