🚀 go-pugleaf

Interesting comments.  I agree that the new SUNS do look interesting but...

I use (every day) Silicon Graphics PI's and Indigo's, Sun SSII's, PC's and
my NeXT.  From the point of view of linpack and specmarks it is true that
NeXT looks weak, but consider how a PC compares.  

What is the spec rating of a state of the are 486 PC? Well there isn't one
cause the spec ratings don't run there at all.  But just from seat of the 
pants feel you can tell that a NeXT is faster!

NeXT is still where it hase alway been between a personal computer and the 
state of the art eingineering workstation. What matters to me is that I can
use the NeXT to replace my PC,(or mac) and my SUN with one box.  Consider 
when you go out to buy your SUN how you are going to copy files onto the 
floppy disk. (mkfs ? mount as root?)  Or how you could compose a simple 
note with some nice fonts.  Or check the spelling in a mail message. I wish
I could do this now, but since I'm using a SUN I'd have to go an buy all
that stuff before I could begin to try to do that .

It is the usability + power of the NeXT that makes it so good not one or the 
other.  If you dissect the feature set of a NeXT, then feature by feature you
can find *A* machine with a better implementation of that feature. BUT try
to find another machine with all of these good things in ONE and only ONE
package and that package will be BLACK!

Of course this dosn't mean that I wouldn't like a faster machine :-)



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