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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 23:49:58 GMT
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In article <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
>
>Yes, there is much more to a mac than NuBus.  Like Singletasking, slow
>video which goes through slow NuBus in most Macs, slow CPUs, slow FPUs,
>slow SCSI, wimpy file protection, high prices, and an operating system
>that is in vaporware neary as long as NeXT existed.  That is why I KNOW
>OF about 20 former Mac and PC student users that are switching to NeXT.
>
>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

Well, I'll admit that I wouldn't switch to a HAL 9000 if you paid me (you
DID see what HAL did in the movie, right), but I'm certainly not rabid with
pride-- I've been known to use and like UNIX machines (and <whispered> VMS
machines).  I've used NeXT, and I like the mac better, perhaps because I
am not so blinded with pride with my machine that I cannot see the problems
such as extremely expensive color, the Display Postscript bottleneck, and
a company run by a man whose ability to run successful businesses (as opposed
to making them that way) is very much in doubt.
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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