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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT | I love my SE (was:68040 for the Mac?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 19:07:37 GMT
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In article <13469@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) writes:

   Or you could look at it this way -- for $700 more than a IIfx you can
   get a pair of IIsi's.  This allows two people to use computers instead
   of only one.  I can't claim I came up with this idea, I got it from
   the Facilities Manager at Purdue. :-)

When you look at it that way, the IIsi looks pretty good.  Actually,
it's not too bad.  Apple didn't cripple it by limiting it to 8 megs of
RAM?  It does have the 030 so virtual memory will come with 7.0.  As
for the FPU, oh well.  Word 4 will run just as fast.

   Not necessarily.  If you don't need (or even want) Unix, a slow
   windowing system and need expandability and hand-holding (not all of
   us are technoweebs), you would be best to look somewhere else than
   NeXT.  Expandability and hand-holding are where I think the IBM
   machines really shine compared to the rest of the market. :-(

What's with this I don't want Unix?  I want preemptive multitasking,
networking, virtual memory and memory protection.  I will use OS/2, if
and when they ever finished it.  I'm not that religous about the
machine I use.

   >not a 15mip machine running DOS.  And even if the NeXT was more power
   >than you needed, why pay the same amount of money for a computer that
   >is less powerful?

   The age old drum-beat of NeXT users: Unix + MIPs = Power.  Too bad the
   workstation users can't learn from the mainframe users.  Ask them if
   the IBM mainframes provides the most brute CPU (well, except for the 3090).

Unix + mips + Display Postscript + Interface Builder + Objective C + Networking
   = Increased Functionality

The reason most Mac people don't understand this, and rightly so, is
because the multitude of applications haven't arrived yet.  Word
Perfect and Lotus Improv were just released within the past month.
Adobe Illustrator and Quark Xpress still haven't shipped.  The 040
NeXT has only been shipping for two months.  We're at the beginning of
the NeXT "revolution"(for lack of a more applicable word).  It will be
more obvious in a year.

-Mike