Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step Message-ID: <1991Feb5.013654.4045@NCoast.ORG> Date: 5 Feb 91 01:36:54 GMT References: <16568@venera.isi.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Distribution: comp Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 25 As quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): +--------------- | enough people to buy a NeXT for the moment. However, software on the | NeXT is in its early MacWrite stages. Companies are presently rushing | to get their software out. Give it a year or two, until Lotus refines | the spreadsheet that they re-invented. +--------------- ...and until NeXT comes up with a machine that doesn't have stuff I don't need, like Ethernet, and therefore don't want to pay for. (I can find a use for the DSP chip --- see my .signature --- but I bet many others wouldn't know what to do with one if it were dropped in their laps.) How about a low-end NeXT upgradeable in separate pieces, i.e. get the bare box and add Ethernet and DSP later? If they did this in a way that reduced the price sufficiently, I could almost see myself getting one. I have no doubt that the current breed of NeXT is a nice machine, but it'd *still* be swatting a fly with a sledgehammer in my case. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY