Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <#W^^PD%@rpi.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 03:34:46 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 20 References:<1990Nov10.015237.3468@athena.mit.edu> <1990Nov10.022306.6551@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov12.023659.28296@agate.berkeley.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu In article <1990Nov12.023659.28296@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes: > So, if you had $5000, would you buy less than half of a Mac IIfx or a > NeXT with twice the power and a lot of other things going for it? I'd buy a Sun Sparc Station. Given that RPI just bought something like 150 of these babies, if I'm going to go for a Unix box then I might as well go for the one I'll use at work. RPI is also getting a number of RS/6000's (which are way out of my price range). When the bidding for this took place, we did not consider NeXT (even though we knew about the new machines). We did consider Mac IIfx's, except that the bids from Sun and IBM made better sense. This will be my last article in the running debate with Mr. CantReadTheNewsgroupName. (probably to the relief of everyone who has been seeing my articles). Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA