Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!khcg0492 From: khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Holden Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <1990Nov7.160943.19804@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Nov 90 16:09:43 GMT References: <1990Nov6.222023.8572@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Nov07.040655.15672@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Nov7.071044.21361@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 26 In article <1990Nov7.071044.21361@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes: >The NeXT is not explicitly targeted at home computer users. But this is >probably due to price more than any issue of ease-of-use. At any rate, >anyone who can post a note a Usenet has more than enough technical >expertise to use a NeXT effectively. If you have a NeXT at home, you had better know Unix, because you are effectively system manager for that computer. When something goes wrong you need some clue about Unix to fix it. Also when you add new equipment. (Someone earlier said that one of the advantages of the Next was that you could add any arbitrary disk drive, but surely that requires modifying some files to tell the computer what the drive can/cannot do.) For ease-of-use, the Next may equal the Mac. For system maintenance, it's much more complicated. It's UNIX! and as nicely hidden as it is, it's still Unix and one shudders to think what someone who doesn't know Unix could do to it. (After all, there are Mac users who don't understand the concept of having just one system folder; what would they do to a Next?) -- ***************************************************************************** Kenneth Chang * khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Center for Complex Systems Research * or University of Illinois * kc@complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu *****************************************************************************