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From: kutem@motcid.UUCP (Jon Kutemeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Attention Amiga (and Amiga to be) Users!
Keywords: NeXT, Cube, Commodore Dead, Amiga's End
Message-ID: <5069@berry12.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 16:43:17 GMT
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coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:

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>	This is what my NeXT can do:

>	1.  Run UNIX out of the box (bet yours can't do that)
                ^^^^
Actually, you are not running UNIX, you are running Mach, a
BSD 4.3 clone (one that has been hacked up by NeXT, if I
might add). And they are not quite the same. I'm much more
content to wait for System 5 Release 4, it will be much
easier to port applications to than Mach.

>	2.  Use Display PostScript for your screen output (know yours can't
>	    do that)

Why do you think so many NeXT owners are so anxious for
the '040 version? :-) Display PostScript, what a great
way to make sure that NO CPU cycles are wasted! :-)

>	3.  Ship with a bunch of supported "professional" programs (you wish
>	    you could do that)
Oh, yes, I forgot about all of the "supported professional" programs,
such as all of the GNU stuff. The only compiler that NeXT currently
has is GCC, and they will not provide you any support on it. Since
it is free, you're on your own. And it is a hacked up GCC at that!
They have ANSIfied (is there such a word? :-) ) their include files
as well as GCC, so there are some strange quirks when trying to 
port programs. I agree that it is nice to have all of those programs,
but I will still take a supported product (such as Lattice or Aztec)
over an unsupported program any day (especially when it is something
I depend upon, like a compiler). This is not to say that some of the
other included programs are not supported, just that not everything
is supported.

>	4.  I can have my very own voice mail link.  Wheeeeee!

Isn't there a medical term for people who talk to themselves? :-)

>_______________
>	Felix A. Lugo
>	coco@ihlpb.att.com


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