Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing? Message-ID: <61945@brunix.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 91 00:57:05 GMT References: <12048.278dfd95@ecs.umass.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 19 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >better than NeXT Step, we're all saying that most existing >environments are based on X, and they will continue to be based on X. Most existing environments are based on Quick and Dirty Operating System, alias QDOS alias MS-DOS alias PC-DOS. And you can even have 17-Mips on such a machine, and all sorts of incompatible add-on cards and 123 and ... Who cares? I like my honest 15Mips and DPS better than any cludgy desing offered by some other companies. You always have the choice between being compatible or being better. NeXT chooses to be the latter. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet