Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!potomac!jtn From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT stat sheet Summary: An industry guy's view of NeXT Message-ID: <7353@potomac.ads.com> Date: 11 Nov 88 04:06:50 GMT References: <74950@sun.uucp> <3717@ihlpe.ATT.COM> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA Lines: 50 In article <3717@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, stuart@ihlpe.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes: > In article <7080@potomac.ads.com>, jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes: > > Anybody know what SUN or APPLE are offering to compete or is it too > > soon to ask? I was considering a used SUN or a Mac II running A/UX > > for a home machine, but these options look pretty silly now compared to > > NeXT. > > > Well, John, the problem is that the real release of the "cube" won't > be availble until the second quarter of 1989 (release 1.0 of the > software not expected until then). This is true.... and I intend to wait until then for my machine. > Also, Jobs has stated EXPLICITLY that it is only available to > university people then. Besides, what software do you want for it? Well, I'm a part-time student and... I've done a lot of reading in my spare time (remember the commercial on TV where Abe Lincoln is explaining why he should be admitted to college?). Seriously, I am a part-time student so maybe I can get one this way. What software do I want for it? Well... I want a Mach kernel and 4.3 running on it. I want to talk to my machines at work via something like SLIP and exchange news/mail withe machines on Usenet and Internet. I REALLY want to buy a sampler board for the thing (when they become available) and generate CD quality music with it so I intend to write/port/obtain sequencer/composer/sample manipulation software. Ambitious enough? > I wouldn't count on the "cube" being available to the general > public until mid 1990 at least. So if you want to get anything > done, buy the Sun or Mac II. The Mac, at least, has lots of > affordable commercial packages. Both the Mac and the Sun support > large quantities of public domain software, NOW. But neither machine implements a public domain Unix with any hope of producing 44.1 Khz sound (boards are available for the Mac but A/UX is not terribly attractive compared to Mach). -- John T. Nelson UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn Advanced Decision Systems Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com 1500 Wilson Blvd #512; Arlington, VA 22209-2401 (703) 243-1611 Shar and Enjoy!