Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 20:18:17 GMT References: <4009@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: yee@osf.org's message of 6 Feb 91 16:44:32 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: client5.cs.psu.edu In article yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: 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. Don't forget price/performance that is comparable with a workstation. The NeXT gives you a GUI that is comparable to the Mac's. I see it as the bridge b/w the workstation and PC worlds. Hopefully, it won't get squashed b/w them. 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? X windows will be available for the NeXT on March 15. I don't believe that it should be an integral part of the system. Besides, Display Postscript is a better imaging model. I think that most people would rather use FrameMaker with DP rather than X. Adobe Illustrator and Quark XPress wouldn't be as good with an X front-end either. -Mike