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From: herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: To upgrade or not to upgrade...
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.212910.2084@sctc.com>
Date: 11 Nov 90 21:29:10 GMT
Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation
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    I hope that I can generate a little discussion on this topic.  ( And 
    BTW when I use the term upgrade, I am referring to the 040 upgrade,
    not the upgrade to NeXTStep 2.0.  I have decided to do the software 
    upgrade anyway. )

    I have recently received my 030 cube, purchased during the Businessland
    fire sale.  Now I am considering my options for speeding the puppy up.
    It seems to me that the most obvious thing, and perhaps the first 
    priority, is to put in a honking big hard drive, which I am prepared to
    do.  A large fast hard drive has many advantages in addition to speeding
    the machine up overall, as I am sure most people are aware.  But I have
    a question, how much of the slowness of program "launching" is due to 
    the slowness of the OD, and how much is due to NeXTStep 1.0?  Will 
    doing the upgrade to NeXTStep 2.0 help significantly, and assuming
    that installing a hard drive as the primary system device and upgrading
    to 2.0 speed the system up, how much more speedup and I likely to realize
    from upgrading to the 040 board?

    I am prepared to buy the 040 board if necessary.  However, if I don't or 
    can put it off, I can purchase some software that I'd like to have.

    Some final, general, questions:

    1.  NeXTStep 2.0 will work on an 030 cube, will it not?

    2.  Other than sheer blinding speed, what are some other advantages to
        having the 040 upgrade?  ( Please discount getting Lotus Improve.
        I'm already weighting that as factor. ).

    3.  How long will 040 upgrades be offered?  Indefinately?


    Any and all help is greatly appreciated.



								- Max

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