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From: strange@sprite.berkeley.edu (Steve Strange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Mac
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Date: 29 Mar 91 19:39:59 GMT
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In article <9103290910.AA14493@futon.SFSU.EDU> sulistio@FUTON.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
>Why would I want to buy a Mac?  It is not a Unix machine, not multitasking
>small screen, overpriced.  With that much money I can buy NeXT, with 
>display postscript, 17" megapixel monitor, Unix, multitasking, built in
>DSP, bundled software.  (Do I get word processor, compiler, etc. if I
>buy a mac?)  
>And I wonder what would happen if System 7.0 come out.  I beleive there
>must be a lot of software that incompatible with 7.0.  And, it will make
>your mac slower and slower than before.
>-- 
A mac doesn't have to have a small screen.  It has tons more software
right now.  It does have multitasking, just not preemptive
multitasking.  Non-preemptive multitasking is better for some
applications.  The NeXT OS takes tons more disk space - you need 300MB
to do useful work/development.  There is no evidence that system 7
will make my mac noticably slower.  The NeXT doesn't have color,
unless you want to spend serious big bucks.  And finally, what if NeXT
vanishes from the face of the Earth in one or two years?  Apple
clearly has a far better chance of survival, especially now with the
overwhelming marketing success of the new low-priced macs.  Like
everyone here has said a million times, it depends on what's important
to you.  I considered a NeXT to replace my mac plus last Fall, but I
got a IIsi instead.  I am most happy with it.  If I want Unix, X
windows, and ethernet, I'll go in to school or work and play with my
workstation there.

		Steve
		UC Berkeley