Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 11:46:00 GMT References: <8b6Gw!m+1@cs.psu.edu> <11710@uwm.edu> <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu> <1544@ewu.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: mpierce@ewu.UUCP's message of 4 May 91 09:50:59 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1544@ewu.UUCP> mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes: [ I have been getting out of hand deleted] I own very few games - they are so good that I would preoccupy myself with them - the majority of my software is DTP, WP, Graphics, Utilities, and Compilers/interpreters, all of which fit my standards. I'm not saying that you should use these, I'm just saying that you should know what you' re talking about before speaking. I admit that comments some of the recent comments that I have said shouldn't have been made. Bit I get tired of Amiga users complaining about points like the software size and that C++ is a better language(read a few comp.lang.* groups for an education -- C++ has it's problems -- but hey, it is standard). It's important to have quality software on a computer. Software size is the last thing that is a problem, unless it affects the peformance. NeXT has a machine with a least common denomitator of 15mips, 2.5MFlops, 8MB of RAM with virtual memory, and the DSP. That makes it easier to develop software for their machine, which hasn't happened as much as I would have liked because companies are jumping on the IBM bandwagon. Software is the key part of a computer, and why Apple sells more computers than Commodore when pound for pound the Mac cannot touch the Amiga. There is where I think the NeXT has a good chance of hitting it big. It's an easy (relative -- writing software is hard work) to write software for it. -Mike