Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 16:44:32 GMT References: <4009@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 33 In-reply-to: johnston@pnet51.orb.mn.org's message of 5 Feb 91 07:25:04 GMT In article <4009@orbit.cts.com> johnston@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston) writes: ... |> Seriously, after working with other xwindows type of systems, the Next |> doesn't really provide anything new, does it? Other than using Objective-C, |> and the Interface Builder... what have you? Don't forget the DSP and sound. This is the most intelligent thing I have read in the Mac .vs. NeXT flame war. What does a NeXT station give you that a X Windows workstation with display postscript and bundled desktop does not? A NeXT verses X workstation comparison seems more fair than a NeXT verses Mac. They both have a distributed graphics environment, some flavor of unix, display postscript, ethernet, 10mips+, etc. |> And who's going to buy the machine, who is using it???? Other than |> college students who have some bucks to spend on it... most of the arguements |> seem bent on power and theoretical goo, not real world usage. |> Sad but true. I really wanted the NeXT to survive. But there's hope still. If NeXT would support X windows as an integral part of the system, then it would have everything that a X workstation has and more. Are you listening, Steve? |> my two bits... not worth much. but, it's a free country. =Mike -- = Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- = OSF/Motif Development = "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ