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- From: fernandeza@merrimack.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Concerns about NeXT Prices are warranted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.104729.2438@merrimack.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:47:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.181812.25376@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1e97r8INNeot@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA
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- In article <1e97r8INNeot@gap.caltech.edu>, ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov16.181812.25376@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
- > (felix.lugo) writes:
- >> You've
- >> got to accept the fact that the new Sun hardware is very attractive and WILL
- >> make potential NeXT customers think twice about which platform to support.
- >> NeXTSTEP is great, but it's value is transitory. Hardware investment is
- >> THE primary concern involved when purchasing for a big project (and I'm not
- >> talking about a one time purchase by an individual). Software for devel.
- >> purposes comes after that.
- >>
- >> --Felix
- >
- > Well, yes and no. After all, Unix boxes have had far superior
- > price/performance for years, but PCs are still the dominant animal. Which is
- > what NeXT is competing against, at least in the LA area (NeXTSTEP vs. Windows
- > NT, which I guess is fair since they're both 'vapor').
- >
- > It is certainly annoying that NeXT has such wimpy hardware, but I guess NeXT is
- > still considered fast relative to the PC world. And don't forget Pentium
- > (Intel '586) is due out soon, which will have comparable performance to a
- > SPARC, and NeXTSTEP '486 is already running on it in NeXT's labs...
-
- Has Intel already sent out samples of the Pentium in advance?
- If not, how can NeXT have NeXTstep 486 working on the Pentium and even
- working on a dual Pentium machine without having working samples?
-
- Alex F.
-
- > - Ernie P.
- > --
- > Ernest N. Prabhakar Caltech High Energy Physics
- > Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
-