Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!balboa.eng.uci.edu!nguyent
From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <2802B127.21121@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 06:31:03 GMT
References: <_44G+.pj1@cs.psu.edu> <10866@uwm.edu> <25dG$=hk1@cs.psu.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Lines: 20
Nntp-Posting-Host: balboa.eng.uci.edu

In article <25dG$=hk1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>In article <10866@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
>
>   wow the education department at any school...  But can you honestly
>   say that this is education?  No.  Then again, you'll want to use an
>   Apple II about as much as a NeXT.  The apple II is slow and outdated,
>   the Next is Slow and low on software...  
>   -- 

NeXT is not as slow as what most of the people here are saying.  In fact,
it's quite fast.
Some of the productivity softwares on it are pretty nice.  

>
>The NeXT is slow compared to what?  Improv runs fine, FrameMaker too,
>and Word Perfect.  I imagine that Adobe Illustrator will be fast too.
>Now, I'm not sure how well the "Killing Game Show" will run.
>
>-Mike