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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 4 Nov 90 19:31:41 GMT
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In article <90308.005234KJSTEELE@MTUS5.BITNET> <KJSTEELE@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:


     I'm not going to talk you out of buying a NeXT, actually I think
it is a good idea.  I own a Mac SE with two megs of RAM and a 40 meg
HD. I bought this syst em for $2800 educator price.  If I had waited I
could have had a low end Next S tation capable of competing with a Max
IIfx for the same price.  When I sell my Mac I am going to become a
NeXT defector too.  In fact today in the mail I rec ieved liturature
on the NeXT station.

   Go ahead, buy a NeXT!

Obviously you are impressed with the NeXT, but you did sell it a
little short.  The NeXT is twice as fast as the IIfx.  In floating
point performance it is between 5-10 times faster.  The NeXT competes
in performance with Sun's SparcStation.  The bridge between the
personal computer and the workstation has been built.  Now, I'm
waiting for the Cray in a Cube.

On another thread, is System 7.0 being written in assembler?  If so,
Apple is not going to have an easy time moving to other
high-performance architectures.

-Mike