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In article <2B66F49C.8437@news.service.uci.edu> eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee  
Furnival) writes:
>Now I must admit that I do not read UNIXWorld regularly, but the few times
>that I have read it I have never seen NeXT mentioned for any reason.  What
>the hell?  Also, I have yet to hear any UNIX freaks mention NeXT in a
>serious discussion, yet they live to talk about SUN and others...

  NeXT is a toy, whereas Suns, SGIs, etc, are "real" computers:
1) If I need a little more power than my 68040, I can't buy a 'fast' NeXT, 
whereas SUN has about a half a dozen models, some of which are very high 
performance. (and I may not even need to buy a complete new system!)
2) Sun is directly upgradable to 24 bit, faster processors, and offers a
variety of plug in Zorro cards. NeXT, on the other hand, forces a user to buy
a NEW machine to get 24 bit color, only offers a faster 68040 for speed,
and there exist virtually no plug in cards (since only a dimension supports
them anyway!)
3) People actually WRITE software for the Sun. NeXT is so stuck on their
Objective-C crap, that no one actually writes anything. Just compare the number
of X applications written on a Sun versus the number of NeXTstep apps written 
on a NeXT. Even the NeXT users who claim to know how to program in Objective-C 
DON'T WRITE ANYTHING. (Just take a look at the number of free 3.0 applications
on sonata (even in incoming). Consider the number of games that exist, and
consider NO speech program exists for the NeXT except commercially. I remember,
when I owned my Amiga, speech came WITH the computer, and it even had inferior
hardware, and games were abundant because EVERYONE could program an Amiga--with
just a little C knowledge. I'll take a ton of applications in a non object-
oriented language any day over NeXT, who forced Obj-C down our throats,
everyone claims to like it, then never actually produce anything.) (I only
use games as an example because, in general, people are much more motivated
to write games than anything else, and since NeXT is proud of their college-kid
market, it would seem THEY would be the ones to be producing tons of games.)
4) The ONLY benefit NeXT offers over Sun is the user interface. And if you
consider that, how often to you hear Mac being referred to as a 'real'
computer by anyone other than a computer illiterate?

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        Mike Neuman                mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu
  "To make a machine that will be proud of us." - Thinking Machine's motto
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