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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.next
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Summary: Sell NeXT stock short ??
Message-ID: <7774@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 88 03:10:32 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> pchris@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Chris Perleberg) writes:
>
>It seems that the NeXT machine may have a few problems:
>
>4) Slow Optical Drive: In the past, optical drives have been significantly
>   slower (seek times) than magnetic drives.  What is the advantage of the
>   optical drive?  Cost must be less than that of the larger 330Mbyte $2K
>   magnetic drive.  But NeXT will be hurt once benchmarks come out for its
>   i/o performance (using the optical drive).

What makes these drives so slow ? Surely it's not the actuator technology...

A more cynical view would have it that there's nothing in a NeXT box
that you could'nt put in an amiga (slot). What seems to set it
apart is the software.

Just like a Mac is different from an AT&T unix PC.


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