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From: chari@ut-emx.UUCP (Christohpher M. Whatlyey)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 00:05:05 GMT
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> No, actually, I'm not kidding.  The NeXT's gray scale buttons and so on are
> very cute, but they've made a lot of the operations abstract to the point
> of obscurity.  Besides, an application bar and a directory browser are no
> match for the Finder.  This is not to say that the NeXT doesn't have some
> nifty innovations, but as a whole it's a less cohesive interface.  Also,
> I get the feeling that a lot of people who are claiming that the NeXT, or
> MOTIF, or whatever are more "advanced" than the Mac actually mean that they
> look newer.  Just because something is familar, though, doesn't mean it's
> obsolete.

Well. From "real-world" experience, I can tell you that people who find 
the Macintosh puzzling get along rather well on the NeXT. It is just so
simple to use. Use effectively, is what I meant to say. I'd love to take
two people who are as technology ignorant as say my father or my roomate
and sit them both down in front of a Mac II and a NeXT. I can tell you that
whoever is on the NeXT will get their document out faster.

Really, my roomate is one of the most ignorant people you could find
when it comes to computers and he uses WriteNow, PrintManager, Webster
Librarian and Quotations quite effectively. He never asks questions and
he never complains. He cannot use a Mac and Word. Period!

> > Last time I looked, my university price for a NeXT was much cheaper than
> > a comparable MacIIci. And that wasn't counting all of the free software,
> > DSP chip, or R/W/optical disk.
> 
> Well, last time I tried a NeXT, its performance was closer to a II or IIx
> than to a IIci.  Also, are you counting university prices on both sides?

What on earth are you talking about? The only time I find my NeXT slow
is when I happen to be taking in stuff at 19.2k over the modem
and unbatching news onto an optical when I'm trying to do something else.
Text scrolling is faster than IIcis I have used for sure. And disk access.
Don't even try to argue that one.

Sorry to be fussy but, I'm letting off a little exam tension.

Chris
chari@pelican.ma.utexas.edu  \ 
chari@nueces.cactus.org      --NeXT Mail