Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet!davis From: davis@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT as a vanilla UNIX box (was Re: USENIX Summer 1991...) Keywords: green fuzzy bananas Message-ID: <1991Jun13.165313.10653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 16:53:13 GMT References: <526@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991Jun13.142906.28474@ni.umd.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: davis@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: usenet.ins.cwru.edu In article <1991Jun13.142906.28474@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > >Its too bad that they feel that way. *Everyone* that I know (including >myself) that has personally bought a NeXT platform for themselves has >done so because its a good UNIX platform FIRST, and a personal >workstation/GUI/whiz-bang box second. > Yes, in fact that's why I bought mine. Normally I avoid posting "me too" articles, but I've seen postings from people at next.com here occasionally so I assume that NeXT is reading this. I didn't buy my NeXTstation because of the cute NeXT GUI, I bought it because it's a better hardware deal than the SLC or IPC. A friend of mine bought an IPC through our school for about what my NeXT cost at the bookstore. I got 200 MB more disk space, marginally better performance (from the tests I've run), and a DSP chip. I almost *didn't* buy the NeXT because of its nonstandardness (having been working with X and C++ at the time), and I was planning to throw all the NeXTstep stuff away and just run X when I bought the thing. I didn't really take NeXT seriously as a UNIX workstation vendor because they don't convey the impression of being serious about being one, and many of my friends have the same attitude. So if you're listening, NeXT: you have a very serious image problem among people who know enough to be in the market for one of your machines. -- PTD -- -- Palmer Davis I'm probably wrong, so don't blame INS. CWRU Information Network Services Life is short. "Delaware has 1.1 million corporations -- I mean chickens." (sct)