Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 04:11:50 GMT References: <8059@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1550@awdprime.UUCP>, <1564@awdprime.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: <1564@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) writes: > In article <8059@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, dandb@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Dean Rubine) writes: > |>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. > > I have to agree with you here. Raising the lowest common denominator > does indeed make it easier on the developers to use things suchs as > the DSP. Unfortunately, there are few main stream applications that > require the DSP these days. You might say in that regard that we are Of course there aren't any mainstream APPs that require a DSP-- up until the NeXT, there wasn't a gurantee that a machine would have a DSP (and if it did, it was $1000+ on top of system price). You can't have a mainstream app that requires a piece of hardware before the hardware is mainstream also... As far as software is concerned, NeXT is in its infancy-- wait until those applications that are written specifically for the NeXT are released... at that point in time, a proper evaluation of the hardware and system advantages can be made. b.bumgarner | Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu | I officially don't represent anyone unless I NeXT Campus Consultant | explicity say I am doing so. So there. "I ride tandem with the random/Things don't run the way I planned them..."