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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Mac
In-Reply-To: strange@sprite.berkeley.edu's message of 29 Mar 91 19:39:59 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.193959.25636@agate.berkeley.edu> strange@sprite.berkeley.edu (Steve Strange) writes:

   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.

The Mac has tons more software right now.  Yes.  The big question is
will the NeXT have good software over the next year or so?  When you
buy your machine, how long do you plan to keep it?  Which computer is
going to look pretty obsolete in two years(maybe both :-) -- HP is
coming on strong.)?  Anyway, could we ALL STOP SAYING THE MAC HAS MORE
SOFTWARE?  No shit.  Which machine is built such that the better
software is going to run on it in the future?  It's is a lot easer to
write software for the NeXT!  If for no other reason than the 15 mip,
2.5(MFLOPS) and 8MB of RAM with virtual memory least common
denominator.

By the way, for a list of features that Adobe Illustrator for the NeXT
will have that the Mac version doesn't, read comp.sys.next.

-Mike