Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The ongoing glut of NeXT-related posts (Re: the recent glut of Amiga-related posts) Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 22:22:22 GMT Article-I.D.: cs.pcH*=g4 References: <1991May9.044759.27402@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991May13.002647.187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May14.131904.9788@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of Tue, 14 May 1991 13: 19:04 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws9.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May14.131904.9788@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: (OK, it's a cheap shot. But someone has to do it) > One of the reason that I find the NeXT so exciting is that the average > businessman can get a personal workstation. The horsepower of a Sun > plus the user friendliness of a Mac. Which Sun? Which Mac? The NeXT is comparable to a SPARC 1+ in speed, so every SPARC <= SPARC 1+. The SPARC II faster(I can let you know by how much in a week), and it does cost $14,000. In all fairness, it is a color machine with some graphics hardware. However, J. Random Suit isn't going to pay $14K for an SSII. The NeXT is a killer machine, but I'm damned if I can figure out what it's for. > But you think that an IBM PC/XT > is all that most people will ever need? It's all that J. Random Suit needs. Unless, he wants to run Lotus 123 3.0 or Excel 3.0. What is the probably of that? Maybe you can market your idea? IBM doesn't even make an XT anymore. You could sell $400 computers to all of those fools who spend big bucks on 386 computers. We've come a long way Peter. You can emulate a 10MHz 286 IBM PC with an EGA monitor in software on the NeXT. -Mike