Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!questor!aberno From: aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Outside opinion. Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 16:55:44 PDT Organization: Questor - Free Internet/Usenet*Vancouver*BC::+1 604 681 0670 I did a silly little experiment the other day - I masqueraded as a non-NeXT user and posted some queries on some of the UNIX forums asking people about what they thought of the NeXT, claiming that I was "looking at buying one". Aside from a few idiotic flames about posting on the wrong forums and not cross-posting properly (I posted it twice instead of cross - posting; oh, woe is me, I shall spend the rest of my days grieving my sins... ) there was only one sus criticism: that NeXT uses a 68000 processor ("Dead", as they say in Unix Snobville) rather than a RISC unit. Well, they don't hate the NeXT out there by any means, if this is representative. Indeed, most people thought it was a good package for what I was claiming to want it for. Strange, isn't it, how the choice of a computer is such an emotional thing? I always thought that the term "Big-Endian" and "Little-Endian", while rather specific in the computer world, was very appropriate when it came to describing two fundamentally, yet trivially different ways of doing something - interested readers should review their Gulliver's Travels if they don't know what I'm talking about : ) Computer users are SO much like Lilliputians. I shall report further when more mail arrives. --- Anthony Berno (aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca) The QUESTOR Project: Free Public Access to Usenet & Internet in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at +1 604 681 0670.