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- From: mikhe@ida.liu.se (Mike Henry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.141011.22252@ida.liu.se>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 14:10:11 GMT
- References: <72148@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec22.040523.2598@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- > has exactly been the users friend ("Hey, let's design our
- > machines without parallel ports, sell a brainless laser engine
- > and paper feed in a box and make it impossible for users to
- > buy much more powerful printers for themselves!!" -- re:
- > NeXT $1000+ "dumb" printer vs. just about any printer in the
-
- Duh?
-
- If you've already got a 68040 doing the postscript rendering for you already,
- then why would you want to buy a printer that does it to. Do you always do
- everything twice and pay more for doing it? Big deal if there isn't a parallel
- port; if it is communication speed you need then why don't you hang your
- printer off the ethernet hose? As if the download to the printer is really the
- bottleneck anyway...
-
- I print on my HP LaserJet faster through the serial port than any high end PC
- through the parallel port. This is fact.
-
- > last 4 years), and not to be xenophobic or paranoid or anything,
- > but we are already in a pretty bad way and don't need our software
- > industry's jewels going overseas as well.
-
- Hate to burst your bubble but there is more foreign ownership in U.S. (big)
- buisiness than original U.S. ownership. Has been since the start. Or maybe you
- don't count the British (by far the largest owners) as foreign... B^)
-
- BTW, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (Y'all too, Netters)
-
- -Mike
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