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- From: mcn@cwru.edu (Michael C. Neuman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Why is NeXT ignored?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:07:22 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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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?
-
- --
- 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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