Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!tonyg From: tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Tony Gedge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <6932@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 23 Jan 91 22:26:29 GMT References: <6860@crash.cts.com> <1991Jan20.185644.1245@cs.uiuc.edu>, <14274@chaph.usc.edu> <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 29 In <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: [ blah blah blah ] >The people that don't switch are the ones who have never TOUCHED a NeXT >or are so rabid with pride in their Mac that they wouldn't switch to a >HAL-9000 costing $600 ... or those who: 1) Can't get a NeXT (I've never seen one in Australia) 2) Can't get a NeXT to do what they want to do (Do Finale and Music Publisher run on a NeXT?) Sure... Macintoshes have heaps of deficiencies... lack of DMA (except on IIfx) strange floppy format (unless you get a SuperDrive)... etc etc. BUT At least I can get my work done on a Macintosh, which I probably could not do on a NeXT. (Mind you... if someone happens to lend me a NeXT... I wouldn't say no :-) Tony Gedge. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Computer Science Department, | tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au | | University of Queensland, Australia.| "cc stands for Cryptic Crossword" | -------------------------------------------------------------------------