Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? (Really Mac vs NeXT Wars) Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 23:18:24 GMT References: <5$7Glmf4@cs.psu.edu> <14332@chaph.usc.edu> <13163@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1109@intelisc.isc.intel.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: cfj@isc.intel.com's message of 24 Jan 91 18:07:23 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: client5.cs.psu.edu In article <1109@intelisc.isc.intel.com> cfj@isc.intel.com (Charlie Johnson) writes: People seem to forget that there are many reasons for buying a particular computer and only a few of those reasons are purely technical. I think that some of the NeXT advocates are falling into the same trap as some of the Amiga advocates have. I realize there a lot of areas where technically the Amiga or the NeXT are better (multitasks, real Unix, etc.). That doesn't mean that I'm going sell my SE/30 and run out and buy one. There are considerations such as software & hardware investment. What I actually use my Mac for and would any of these features which may be lacking on the Mac really make any difference. Another important reason is that my wife uses a Mac at work and she wanted to be able to work at home. Everything is not as black and white as some people try to make it. Of course, we(I) realize that some people are stuck using a particular machine for software reasons. However, the software problem is slowly being solved. Word Perfect and Lotus Improv for the NeXT will allow most of the IBM world to take their work home with them. Both of these companies will soon be shipping new products for the Macintosh. At least Word Perfect will be, and this time it should be a "real" Mac product. Users of Adobe Illustrator and Quark XPress will soon be able to do their work on a NeXT. FrameMaker already runs on both machines. And of course Wingz runs on many platforms. It's all in how you choose your software. Choose wisely, and you will be able to jump ship when Apple ships their NeXT killer, assuming it's time to upgrade. A 15 mip personal computer will probably still be useful in several years. -Mike