Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!knrgroup From: knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <1990Nov12.042639.4168@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 04:26:39 GMT References: <1990Nov12.023659.28296@agate.berkeley.edu> <#W^^PD%@rpi.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes: >I just said that if you can't afford it [a NeXT], then you can't afford it. >Apparently this is too obvious a statement for you. It is actually too obvious. Why make the statement, it is already understood. I thought you were actually trying to make a non-trivial point. >I'll take comments from comp.sys.next into consideration, >but it's quite possible that I'll ignore NeXT ramblings in this newsgroup. See you over there. You have the perfect right to ignore what you wish. However, why not try to learn wherever you can? I'm learning new stuff about the Mac, and I'm sure you've found out a few things about the NeXT. >I'd buy a Sun Sparc Station. Given that RPI just bought something like >150 of these babies... The Sun is to the NeXT what an IBM-compatible is to a Mac, but that's another flame war.... >When the bidding for this took place, we did not consider NeXT (even though >we knew about the machines) RPI's loss. But sad to say, many universities are Sun shops and have the mistaken impression that a NeXT is like a Sun, but only slower. The new NeXTs, however, are just as fast or faster (for $5000), and you really can't compare NeXTStep to Sun and OpenLook. By the way, the designer of OpenLook now works for NeXT. He apparently believes that OpenLook should have been more like NeXTStep. For $5000, you can buy a Sun, but it would be useless without a network. For $5000, you can be a great standalone NeXT.