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From: ross@apollo.HP.COM (Mike Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Apple class machine of the 90's
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Date: 18 Dec 89 16:46:00 GMT
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I also don't want to read a lot of religious
wars about whether the Next or the Mac is
better. Probably each machine has its own
good features, and if you bought one, you
probably liked one or more of them. People
have differing needs and reasons for buying
the machines, and you're unlikely to have
the same exact needs as the person on the
net with whom you are arguing. 

The original subject line was " What I'd like to see on an Apple of the 90's".
Now the answer to *THAT* question is interesting. I'd like
to hear what other people would like to see on a machine
at the price of a MAC or NEXT in the 90s.

For myself, I'd like to see a truly distributed file
system, totally transparent from one machine to another
on a common network, and a good data base system that
is capable of utilitizing the disk and processing power
of several machines at once to handle queries. I'd also
like to see machines with up to 4 processors at this price,
with some tools to take advantage of parallelism. Getting
parallel computing down in price so that it can be easily
utilized is an important step for the 90's, I think.