Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!ewright From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <108441@convex.convex.com> Date: 8 Nov 90 22:31:57 GMT References: <46372@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Nov7.212944.11043@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov8.175911.16932@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com Organization: Convex Computer Corporation; Richardson, TX Lines: 34 In article <1990Nov8.175911.16932@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes: >If you want to hook up anything other than >an Apple to a LocalTalk network, you're going to have to invest in an extra >board and accompanying software. The NeXT handles both thin and twisted-pair >Ethernet, the network standard for the rest of the world. If you want to hook anything other than a UNIX box to an Ethernet network, you're going to have to invest in an Ethernet board and accompanying software. Of course, LocalTalk boards/connections are cheaper than Ethernet. >To Businessland or to NeXT, depending on which is closer. By the way, >NeXT boasts that because of its state-of-the-art manufacturing plant, >NeXTs are the most defect-free computers around. You know, this is getting boring. First you tell us that companies that develop for the Macintosh have no credibility when they comment on the NeXT. Then you repeat statements like this which come right out of NeXT, Inc. press releases. Could NeXT itself possibly have a vested interest in its own survival? Could it perhaps be less than totally objective? For that matter, could you, as a third-party developer for the NeXT, have the same conflict of interest you accuse others of? Could you give us verifiable facts to back up some of your claims? Actual, published benchmarks in independent magazines such as Byte instead of vague claims about NeXT being "ten times faster for floating-point," which, no matter how often you repeat them, do not carry very much weight. The addresses of actual stores where one can buy the machines instead of vague references to the new dealer network. Point-by-point, feature-by-feature comparisons of Mac and NeXT software instead of handwaving claims that NeXT is "clearly superior."