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From: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
Message-ID: <59975@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 90 18:07:38 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.224705.24123@rice.edu> <1990Dec9.234749.9687@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <22081@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Dec10.183222.9625@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Dec10.183222.9625@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>In article <22081@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>>Play with a NeXT.  They are incredibly fun.  The NeXT is more than Unix
>>(NeXTStep and Interface Builder for instance), but Unix is also pretty
>>fun to hack.  Mach messaging is a lot of fun, playing around and programming
>>the DSP chip is a lot of fun, interapplication communications is a lot of 
>>fun.

Programming the DSP chip is NOT fun -- it is, uh, challenging!
Reminds me of the old days programming the Mac (or Windows, I 
guess)... the edit-compile-test-debug cycle becomes the edit-
compile-test...oops! crash!, reboot, oops! crash!, reboot, debug, 
crash!, etc., etc.

--
Edward Jung
Microsoft Corp.

My opinions do not reflect any policy of my employer.