Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step Message-ID: <16549@venera.isi.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 21:25:14 GMT References: Sender: news@isi.edu Distribution: comp Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 28 In-reply-to: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 23 Jan 91 03:30:36 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >This is a question that I have been asking myself for quite some >time(but I've been afraid to bring up). We have been waiting for >System 7.0 for a couple years, but what will it offer us that NeXTSTep >2.0 doesn't already have? The only big plus that I can tell is that >it won't be nearly as large as Unix(another plus might be that it >isn't Unix :-)) However, NeXT is shipping machines with 8 megs of >memory and the 68040 chip, so this kind of makes of for the fact that >Unix is a CPU and memory sucking hog. So, what more will 7.0 offer >the user besides balloon help? > >-Mike > >BTW: Word Perfect 5.0 for the NeXT started shipping last week. It >looks like NeXT is going to make it big. Hopefully, they won't take >as long as Apple to realize that $1500 machines sell like hot cakes. Plus, it will run all of your Mac software which NeXt won't. If you can live with the NeXt software selection, can afford the box, and need the things it offers (why would a standard person need UNIX? I don't know), then go for NeXt. Hell, buy a Vax! A Cray, even... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California