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- From: thartman@phakt.usc.edu (Tye)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Need to convince boss 486's are *not* way to go...
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:20:14 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1jhck1INN507@pith.uoregon.edu> rtaylor@cie.uoregon.edu (Russ Taylor) writes:
- >Question:
- >
- >If NeXT is so much more godawful fast than a Mac (which it isn't) then why
- >is a 68030 Mac suitable for almost anything, while an 030 NeXT is so slow
- >it got cancelled? BTW, how fast are those 486s with NeXTstep going to run
- >DisplayPostcript? Not very, I'd wager.
- >
- You obviously don't know a whole lot about the NeXT OS. Unlike a Mac, it's
- truly multitasking. And Display Postscript takes some serious CPU power, too.
- NeXTSTEP 486 runs Display Postscript beautifully, just like a NeXTStation.
- I've seen it. It's amazing.
-
- >Macinotosh forever, or at least until someone comes up with something better.
-
- Sorry, NeXTSTEP has been here awhile now! ;)
- >
- >************************************************************************
- >* "Remember, you're not losing an empire game, you're gaining a life." *
- >* Russ Taylor/Brennan the Protector rtaylor@cie @honors .uoregon.edu *
- >************************************************************************
-
- Tyson Hartman
- thartman@usc.edu
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