Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!krk From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NeXT | I love my SE (was:68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <13469@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 17 Feb 91 16:49:24 GMT References: <1991Feb16.020056.11742@NCoast.ORG> <1e3G7w*o@cs.psu.edu> <3287@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: krk@democretos.cs.purdue.edu (Kevin Kuehl) Organization: Purdue Univserity Computer Science Department Lines: 29 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >What do IIsi's cost? I would guess around $2000. My big complaint is >that for $1300 more you can have the IIfx(and more). 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. :-) >of both markets. The current NeXT machine will continue to meet your >in the coming years too. 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. :-( >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). -- Kevin Kuehl krk@cs.purdue.edu kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu