Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 07:32:35 GMT References: <1713@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU's message of 13 Jun 91 05:51:06 GMT In our department (about 33 Faculty members) there are three NeXT-s. (One Cube and two Stations). I am the only one who traded a MacIIx for a NeXT and am glad I did. But I still keep a PC around because of the flakiness of SoftPC. The cube was purchased a yearor two ago, the other station under the influence of SLAC. Approximately two undergrads bought 105 MB Stations. I can't afford to give up the HP-Vectras (donated by HP) in my teaching lab, and we have another 7-8 IBM PS2 machines there too. If the rumored 88k NeXt materializes, some of my colleagues who are contemplating buying HP 9000/720 machinse because of their speed (and the stability of HP-UX, if you ask me) might consider the new NeXT-s. But diversity is really not that bad. Departments who are "All-Mac" or "all-Ms-Dos" or all BSD or all SysV smack of totalitarianism. Having tried them all, I am very tolerant of other people's taste in computers; as long as they are productive and enjoy what they are doing. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET