Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!feldman From: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Please, no more IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: <6151@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 18 Feb 90 21:14:38 GMT References: <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 24 Let's not start another machine vs. machine holy war in this group. Different problems require different solutions. The RS/6000 series provides some heavy duty crunching, color, and a NextStep development platform (for additional $$$, I believe). It does not come with the bundled applications, it does not have sound, and the logo isn't as colorful. Everyone keeps going back to speed as a benchamrk, and currently the NeXT is slow for a "workstation" class machine. Undoubtedly, a machine based on the 68040 will be much faster. Faster than the RS/6000? I don't know, nor do I care. I want to know if it will be fast enough to do what I want it to do. For many applications, including mine, more bang for the buck could be achieved by adding a few more 68030/68882 CPU sets (w/DSP, if possible) to the current NeXT, after all, Mach supports multuprocessing. Since the new RS/6000 series is RISC and speaks native X, I would say that IBMs POWERstations and POWERservers (Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC -- really!) are in more direct competition with DECstations, SPARCstations, and the like than with NeXT. The one sure thing is that my old Apple ][ plus is really falling behind:-) Mark