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From: hhwong@aludra.usc.edu (Henry Hwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
Summary: This is getting ridiculous.
Keywords: NeXT, macs, hohos
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Date: 23 Jan 91 06:12:15 GMT
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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.
>Your attitude is completely ignorant.  "No, I won't buy a Mac, until
>it runs ALL of my Apple II software."  Your requirements for
>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
>a 9", 72 dpi SE screen.  Can anyone give me the cost of an SE/30 18
>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.
>
>-Mike

With all the ruckus about the NeXT and Macs (again), I think you all are
wrong.  I like my VIC-20! :-)

Seriously, as David Ahl has said, "if it doesn't have software, it might
as well be a boatanchor." (or something very close to that).  I call this
discussion moot until NeXT gets its much heralded software, and then I'll
think about it.  This discussion is getting nowhere, because both sides
are so damn emotional about it, not to mention the positions are immovable.
We are just wasting bandwidth with stuff we already threw at each other
not so long ago.

I like my mac.  It does everything I want it to.  Now tell me, why should
I change right now?  Uh oh, I can see another thread developing! :-)

-Henry (hhwong@usc.edu)