Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!linus!linus!linus!mbunix!eachus From: eachus@aries.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long) Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 19:13:24 GMT References: <1991Mar18.051407.4163@kessner.denver.co.us> <1426@amix.commodore.com> <1991Mar19.003209.6819@kessner.denver.co.us> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 20 Mar 91 17:49:55 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: aries.mitre.org In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: The NeXT was released with rev 0.9 of the O/S. At some point you have to shoot the developers and ship something. Don't know about you, but the first (and I hope only) NeXT machines we got were running 0.8. 0.9 was a big improvement, and we now have 2.0 installed. Acording to John Kordash in the Research Computer Network support center here, Mach 2.0 on a 68040 (upgraded motherboard in a cube) feels to the user somewhere between a Sun-3/60 and and original SPARCstation. To me that is really damning with faint praise. -- Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...