Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ads.com!potomac.ads.com!jtn From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New HP machines No News for NeXT?? Message-ID: <1991Jun1.003344.2109@potomac.ads.com> Date: 1 Jun 91 00:33:44 GMT References: <1991May22.201338.14280@oceania.UUCP> <1991May29.013227.18675@dsd.es.com> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA Lines: 37 >> Also... On the HP debate (and all other future "MIPSStations") >> 78MIPS is worthless if developers can't easily port to it. >> Look at Improv's record time to port. They could not have >> easily made Improv for X windows (IMHO). . . . >I spent the weekend playing with a NeXTColor w/ 400MB disk and 16MB >of RAM. Before people flame me, IT WAS WONDERFUL! I must admit that >there were times when I wished for my Series 5 Solbourne (22MIPS SPARC >compatible) because that is the kind of response that I'm familiar with >at the office. > >I guess we're always looking for bigger, faster and neater computer! The reason to buy a NeXT is the software/Mach/interface builder etc. Hardware can usually be made faster. NeXT hasn't hit the ceiling yet and with some OS tweaking and multiple CPU boards, the machine could scream. Shame it can't outperform a SPARC though :-) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ORGANIZATION: BLETCH (Bletcherous League of Evil Twisted Computer Hackers) UUCP: kzin!speaker@mimsy.umd.edu INTERNET: jtn@potomac.ads.com SPOKEN: Dark Hacker PHONE: (703) 243-1611 TWISTED DIABOLICAL LAUGH: Mwahh ah ha ha hah ha ha ha! The Mythos of Dark Hacker: "Controlled by the sinister and shadowy "suits" Dark Hacker now employs the tools of computer science to free himself from the suit's will. By day he is a lackey... but at night when the city sleeps he becomes.... DARK HACKER!" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=