Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <42985@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 23 Jan 91 04:03:47 GMT References: <6860@crash.cts.com> <1991Jan20.185644.1245@cs.uiuc.edu> <14274@chaph.usc.edu> <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> <42973@ut-emx.uucp> <5$7Glmf4@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 41 In article <5$7Glmf4@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >Have you seen an 68040 NeXT? If not, then you haven't seen a NeXT. Huh? Explain that again? Other than speed, what has changed about the new NeXT machines? >Your attitude is completely ignorant. "No, I won't buy a Mac, until No it isn't. Like I said, I've tried the NeXT and watched demos. If those experiences won't convince me, all the misinformation several NeXT supporters have spread here, in the IBM, and the Amiga forums (at least) won't do diddly squat. >it runs ALL of my Apple II software." Your requirements for And you are ignorant when you criticize people for valuing not only there own investment both of money and of time, but the installed base, the technical support available through many venues, and the software base. >purchasing a NeXT are quite rigid. What Mac do you own? How >important is color to your work? The grey-scale Mac is a far cry from Again, another bad assumption. My computer (an SE/30 by the way) is not JUST for work. However, in much of the work I do, the Mac's ability to emulate an Apple II, a PC AT, and run Unix all come in handy. >a 9", 72 dpi SE screen. Can anyone give me the cost of an SE/30 18 Thanks, but I've used a 9" 72 dpi screen for six years. I don't think you have that much to tell me about what I can do on it. I've also used large screens. I'm happy knowing I can add, AT MY CHOICE, various screens from 12" to 21+". >months ago? It would be interesting to see how far the industry has >come. If you subtract the cost of the display, you will find that you >are paying very little for all of that horsepower. And I could be paying even less if I didn't have to buy Ethernet and the DSP. This argument is old. You lose nothing by spending your time trying to sell the NeXT except those people who plop your names and the word NeXT into their kill files who MIGHT have been interested in looking at the NeXT at some point.