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#1470

Author: Dale Southard Jr.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:01

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From the April 28, 1992 issue of PC magazine
extract from the sidebar "32-Bit GUI Alternatives:  No Contest" pp.192
by William F Zachmann

"... Another Unix-related contebnder is the NeXTstep 486, from NeXT. Built
on the Macintosh operating system kernel, the object-oriented NeXTstep is
an Intel architecture version of the much praised (if little bought)
operating system developed for Steve Job's NeXT computers. NeXTstep will
require an 80486 with 8MB to 16MB of RAM.  The user version will occupy
120MB of disk space; the developer version will need a whopping 400MB. ..."

He (W.F. Zachmann) also describes with great detail the shortcommings of all
the other present/future OS's when compared to the great god WindowsNT.

My opinion(s):

1) Gee, you mean to say that my Mac has been running Mach as it's kernal
	all this time?  :-)

2) Are all PC owners this dense?? :-)

3) Is 400MB of disk still "Whopping" for developers in the PeeCee world? :-)

4) Seriously: Has NeXT been THIS BAD at making the advantages of its 
	OS/Hardware known.  (Hell, I don't own one and I know that it 
	doesn't--hasn't--won't ever run on top of a Macintosh OS kernal).  

5) Seriously:  Does any other OS (NeXTstep, Taligent, Solaris, Open Desktop)
	stand a chance in a marketplace with this type of ignorance?


-- 
Dale Southard Jr.                                 Sr. Rigger
University of Toledo                             AFF/I   SL/I
grx1512@uoft02.utoledo.edu                          D-11216
Department of Chemistry -- "Just another skydiving grad student."

Re: PC magazine misinformation

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Author: Gerben Wierda
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 11:23

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> 5) Seriously:  Does any other OS (NeXTstep, Taligent, Solaris, Open Desktop)
>         stand a chance in a marketplace with this type of ignorance?

When NeXT started this was at the heart of their ideas. Lots of DOS user's
will type 'R' 'E' 'T' 'U' 'R' 'N' when told to type <Return>. The lack of
knowledge about computers and their basics is very widespread and hard to
believe by people who are capable of posting to the net. For 99% of the users
it is totally irrelevant what the OS is. They will most of the time not be
able to grasp even a small portion of what can be done.

For us, netters, OS, CPU's etc are the things we like to talk about. All these
OS's and environments only stand a chance when tey are *not* subject of
discussion with any possible customer.

Of course, since the Workstation market is still far away from being
challenging the PC market, we will see largely scientific and engineering work
for Workstations and DOS everywhere else. Bill gates might in fact be the only
one who has a *chance* of getting people to use a real OS. They will by from
him whatever he delivers (see Windows 3.0).
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