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Article #21777Re: WOULD *YOU* BUY A NeXT COMPUTER? (Read even if you wouldn't)
From: Darryl Richman
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 12:58
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 12:58
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In article <1TqpCt#6PkSJw=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes: "Why should I buy Steve Jobs's Mac-on-steroids closed-architecture box when "I can get cheaper, faster commodity iron with better standards conformance "based on the 386? For the same reason that people continue to buy light powered Macs for the same prices as 386s on steroids: it's different, and perhaps better, for their needs. Besides, the NeXT is not a closed architecture box--it takes NuBus cards (of admittedly funny size and speed), but it is not closed in the sense of the Macs up to the Mac+. It also runs Mach, which means it ought to do multiprocessing easily and well (remains to be seen). --Darryl Richman P.S. I am hardly a NeXT fan, but I can see why someone might choose to pay more for an integrated GUI with a policy than Unix with X. -- Copyright (c) 1989 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.-A Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!vail!ism780c!darryl From: darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: WOULD *YOU* BUY A NeXT COMPUTER? (Read even if you wouldn't) Message-ID: <37648@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 19 Dec 89 12:58:21 GMT References: <317@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1TqpCt#6PkSJw=eric@snark.uu.net> Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 21