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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStation vs. NextStation color
Message-ID: <1489@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 01:48:17 GMT
References: <wc1TnQa00VoRA4ZHxy@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <wc1TnQa00VoRA4ZHxy@andrew.cmu.edu>
	da1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel K. Appelquist) writes:
>Exactly how much slower is the display on the NextStation color?

3-4 times slower than the NeXTstation--which is damn good
considering how much more memory we're talking about.

>                                                                  Does
>it make a big difference?

If you're happy with the performance of the original 68030 NeXTs,
you'll be happy with the NeXTstation Color.

>                           How much support is there for color among
>NeXT applications in general?

All NeXTs run the *same* basic software--that means that "color
applications" are _still_ "color applications" even on a
grayscale display.  Color is *not* used to convey essential
information so that applications will be usable on all models.
Very few applications "go out of their way" to support color;
that doesn't mean that they don't, it just means that no
exceptional effort is required.

					-=EPS=-