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- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: Sun and DSP: Some people don't get it
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.035945.1756@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:59:45 GMT
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- In article <ANDERSON.93Jan25160837@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
- anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson) writes:
- >
- > I can't believe I'm in the position of sympathizing with a defense of
- > Sun, but I found Kim Wallen's post troublingly persuasive. And I think
- > Nathan's rejection of his argument is out of line (in tone, as well as
- > in substance, but that's something else). For one thing,
-
- Thanks for contributing that personal slander, Stephen.
- Good argument style. There was nothing "troubling" about
- my tone, I even said "please" in the conclusion, thank you
- very much.
-
- My point was that Kim appeared to be cheerfully repeating
- Sun anti-NeXT propaganda that has long been refuted. The
- generic inference that NeXT has problems with
- connectivity in a heterogeneous computing environment is a
- tired mis-truth.
-
- However, Kim has correctly followed up by pointing out that
- one significant problem (for some users) remains: you can
- run X on the NeXT, but you can't run NeXTstep apps on other
- machines. Perhaps the porting of NeXTstep to every capable
- platform on the planet will solve that little problem...
-
- > NFJ> Since those nasty 3rd party apps work just great, your
- > NFJ> conclusion is erroneous. NeXT requires no such
- > NFJ> "commitment".
- >
- > I presume you're referring to co-Xist, eXodus, etc. Well, at least as
- > far as co-Xist is concerned, it does indeed work just great - as long
- > as you don't have NeXT's "top of the line" system, a ND. If you do,
- > you're screwed,
-
- Well, you're screwed with an ND period, no argument there,
- but ND systems are a tiny minority of installed NeXTs. I'm
- not saying it's correct for NeXT to have so totally hosed
- over the suckers - errrr - customers that forked up zillions
- of dollars for ND NeXTcubes, but the vast majority of NeXTs
- work fine with 3rd party X products.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
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