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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: auto power / IB / Unix
Message-ID: <1390@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 91 03:31:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.154848.1297@cs.cmu.edu> <1384@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Mar3.231118.19024@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <1991Mar3.231118.19024@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
	zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
>   EPS:  What is so bad about auto power on after power interruption?  Thats
>how ALL of our group's wrokstations and servers are set up.  

Nothing--that was my point.  This was one of my earliest
complaints about the machine, and one they STILL haven't fixed.

>    Just out of curiousity, why do people buy NeXT's?  Is it because it is
>a relatively cheap Mach (Unix 4.3ish) box?

Without that, we simply would not be able to order the machines.

Realistically, our dominant use of NeXTs is as "conventional"
UNIX timesharing boxes.  They are excellent for this purpose;
a '030 system will comfortably support 12 users, an '040
shouldn't have any problems with 32.  Once we have some solid
multiprocessor support (and appropriate NeXTbus cards), I'm
hoping NeXT can give Sequent (and DEC) serious competition.

Not that we're ignoring NeXT's other strengths--but if it were
as proprietary as the Macintoy, it wouldn't be here.  (And
nearly all the "real work" we do on Macs is done on A/UX.)

					-=EPS=-