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- From: wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 260-8100)
- Subject: Re: NeXT Prices: They appear too high for me!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.164026.4051@cuug.ab.ca>
- Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
- References: <BxHGqt.CGC@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov10.051156.2995@csus.edu> <178@bytepb.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:40:26 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <178@bytepb.UUCP> ben@bytepb.UUCP (Ben Smith @ BYTE) writes:
- >Why burden the Quadra with something that belongs only on
- >responses to government POSIX requirements, i.e., AUX. If you
- >want to do a comparison like this, may as well give both machines
- >a lobotomy: make them both emulate MS-DOS and then run DOS
- >benchmarks. The idea is to evaluate a machine with its native
- >environment.
-
- PC Mag tried this already. The Dell won. The Mac lost. NeXT and Sun kind
- of tied. It was a really funny article. Almost as funny as yours.
-
-
- >Even though I reget some of the decisions we made along the way,
- >we have learned from these mistakes (I hope), and will continue
- >to improve our methods of attacking this problem. (Construct
- >ideas are even more valuable than fanatic criticism.)
-
- Does this mean your next comparison won't be the Vic 20 versus
- the Iris Crimson? I was looking forward to that one.
- >
- >Incidently, in case you are wondering why the Amiga was not part
- >of the review: they didn't want to participate, nor did Data
- >General. -ben
-
- Yeah, they probably knew where the article was going. They didn't
- want the bad publicity generated by an irresponsible article. Byte's
- signal to noise ratio has plummetted since they got the new boss.
-
- Terry Wilcox
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