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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: The ongoing glut of NeXT-related posts
	(Re: the recent glut of Amiga-related posts)
In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of Mon, 13 May 1991 00: 26:47 GMT
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In article <1991May13.002647.187@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   [ I've gone wild bashing everyone deleted]

Hey Peter,
   I call it as I see it, and I give credit where credit is due.  I've
said some good things about the Amiga.  It is nice for animation, and
I have even said that the Amiga does a better job at it than the NeXT.
I've said the NeXTStep is better than OpenLook, and I said that the
040 NeXT is comparable to a SPARC 1+ in speed.  I didn't massively
flame Sun.  I haven't said much bad about Apple.  However, did I
mention that ballon help is probably the only thing in System 7.0
qthat NeXTStep 2.0 doesn't contain? IBM, well I won't pass up chance
to bash them.

There has been a little educational value out of all this.  Several
people have stated that Display Postscript doesn't necessarily have to
be slow(whether NeXT's implementation is efficient wasn't really
discussed).  The blitter on this great animation machine is not even
as fast as an 030 for most operations, and some Amiga users have even
gone so far as to use the 030 instead.  Wait till they get their 040
upgrades and find that it's three times faster than the 030.  The
blitter must just be retired.  Can we conclude that 20-30fps of
animation is quite possible on the NeXT, so we can all play games on
the machine while we do a little work.  Or is that the other way
around :-).

Some of the arguing has been about NeXT not giving all of their free
software on the 105MB computers.  Another thread was about the sorry
state of word processing on the Amiga.  A few Amiga users pointed out
that it could be a lot better.

People have been complaining that the NeXTstation is not expandable
and I've been trying to persuade them that is not too important(You
can add more RAM, HD, modem, etc., of course) It's better IMHO to sell
your old machine and buy a new machine in a few years, if you really
want to upgrade.

One of the reason that I find the NeXT so exciting is that the average
businessman can get a personal workstation.  The horsepower of a Sun
plus the user friendliness of a Mac.  But you think that an IBM PC/XT
is all that most people will ever need?  Right Peter?  Computer
scientist should have retired after 1983?

-Mike

