Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries.scs.uiuc.edu!sandrock From: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark T. Sandrock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac LC or NEXT Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 17:19:51 GMT References: <137661.27A25062@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1991Jan31.132606.9845@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <85859@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 36 macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes: >In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >>NeXT is starting to catch on. The lack of software is its main >>problem, but they do have some big names like Word Perfect, Lotus, >>FrameMaker, Quark XPress, and Adobe writing software for the NeXT. >>Pick up a the first issue of NeXT World, and read comp.sys.next for a >>couple of weeks. That should give you some idea of how NeXT is doing. >Who are you, anyway? >For a week or so now, this current Mac/NeXT war has been going on, and your >name has become increasingly familiar. It seems as though you are the *entire* >NeXT side of this conversation. It's been stated before that the NeXT is not >truly a home computer. I have no *valid reason* to own anything more than my >Classic, with the possible exception of a few serious number-crunching programs. And who are you? You don't speak for this newsgroup any more than anyone else. I find the Mac-NeXT comparisons quite interesting and informative. I use an accelerated Mac Plus with a Radius FPD, which I have been slowly upgrading for the past 4 years, but if I were starting out today I would have to give serious consideration to the NeXT as a viable DTP platform. "Wars" are a waste of net bandwidth--we all agree--so let's all cut each other a little slack then. Besides, the Mac and the NeXT have something important in common: Steve Jobs. This makes the comparison especially interesting, I think. Check out the recent MacWorld (or MacUser) article--the new NeXT compares quite well against the high-end Macs. (Sorry if this has already been pointed out too often!) Regards, Mark Sandrock -- BITNET: sandrock@uiucscs Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu Chemical Sciences Computing Services Voice: 217-244-0561 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 "...make every effort to supplement your ...virtue with knowledge" 2 Peter 1:5