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From: daveo@apple.com (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
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Date: 6 Dec 90 00:53:08 GMT
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> Not to mention Unix,
> the fact that the NeXTCube itself is three times as fast as the
> IIfx, has a better development environment, comes with Unix,
> etc, etc.

What benchmark are you using for that comparsion??  If you're using the 
performance of Mathmatica then that's not adequite since Mathmatica has an 
admitted bug on the Macintosh version that slow it down _SIGNIFICANTLY_.

As for the matter of coming with Unix, I think that's a debatible 
advantage for the average user, etc, etc.  The funny thing about NeXT 
coming with Unix is that the real advantage is that you can
run software that doesn't take advantage of _ANY_ of NeXT's features.  So 
you got this great windowing box and you run text based software on it, 
yeah that's a real advantageI

just my $0.02 worth

daveo@apple.com

I do not speak for Apple Computer, Inc. in any official account.
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sail to luff earlier and more completely, which lowers the center of
effort.

Lift due to oversheeting increases untill stall is reached, and then
it quickly tumbles off.  Twist in the sail smooths out the leverage
curve because the top stalls last --- causing the center of effort to
rise even as the lift falls off.

/pr