Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!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: <42973@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 23 Jan 91 01:32:29 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@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 25 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. "most Macs"? Mac 128, Mac 512, Mac 512ke, Mac Plus, Mac SE, Mac Classic, Mac Portable, Mac SE/30, Mac II, Mac LC, Mac IIx, Mac IIcx, Mac IIsi, Mac IIci, Mac IIfx. In sheer numbers the compacts outnumber the NuBus machines. In number of models the compacts and onboard video machines outnumber the NuBus video models. Either way you are WRONG WRONG WRONG. I wouldn't mind it if you kept your comments to corrections about NeXT facts and requests for GENERAL recommendations on computers, but Noooooo, you have to waste MY bandwidth with your horse manure. It is pathetic. >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 I've seen a NeXT. It's no HAL-9000. It doesn't cost $600. You give me a NeXT that will run ALL my current software and is upgradeable to color, and I will give you my SE/30 and $600. Otherwise, keep to topics you know.