Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: NeXT News
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.075309.11638@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 07:53:09 GMT
References: <9010301952.AA05471@apple.com> <10525@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <10525@milton.u.washington.edu> cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:

Well, I'd like to get my 2 cents in here. I use a GS and until recently
had been using Mac's as well. I recently received my NeXT cube. Anyone
who thinks the Amiga 3000 is in the same class is simply uninformed.
The same goes for a MacIIfx by the way. Apple should stick to improving
its OS. Same goes for Commodore. They are both far too far behind the
workstation people to ever catch up.

As for the NeXT being a personal computer, that is an interesting question.
The software will be priced along the lines of a Mac's software, and there
is now even a NeXTConnection! It may be the only workstation to be a 
persobnal computer.

I don't want to put the A3000 or the MacIIfx down, but seriously you are
talking about very different items when comparing them to the NeXT. There
is no comparison.

Now if I could just get NFS and Ethernet support for the GS!

The audio on the NeXT is wonderful, just as the audio on the GS is
great.

If a person wanted Unix and games, they'd be better off with a NeXT and
a CDTV or A500 or a Nintendo machine.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]


