Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!k.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dandb From: dandb@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Dean Rubine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: <8059@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 19 Feb 90 20:36:26 GMT References: <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1550@awdprime.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 23 Keith Perkins (n245bq@tamunix.tamu.edu) (I think it was him) writes: >I agree that NeXT sound chip is nice and IBM lacks it but I am sure they >can remedy to this especially with the power they boost. In <1550@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) replies: >Remeber you got SCSI support and a micro-channel bus, so adding the >DSP will be no problem. To me, the great thing about the NeXT was that it came with all sorts of stuff as standard equipment. As a developer, I'll be much more tempted to write applications which use the NeXT sound chip, since I know there will be one on every machine. This is a marked difference from the typical situation, where I can buy add-on DSP hardware for, say, my IBM or Apple. Since only a few people will buy such hardware, it is much less appealing for software developers to write programs which utilize that hardware, as the potential market is so much smaller. Thus any such software written will likely cost a lot, and/or be of lower quality. -- ARPA: Dean.Rubine@CS.CMU.EDU PHONE: 412-268-2613 [ Free if you call from work ] US MAIL: Computer Science Dept / Carnegie Mellon U / Pittsburgh PA 15213 DISCLAIMER: My employer wishes I would stop posting and do some work.