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- From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.111228.1956@gamelan>
- Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
- Reply-To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
- Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X
- References: <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 11:12:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com> paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen)
- writes:
- >
- > Stay away from A/UX. It is slow (or used to be) and not really BSD. Ditto
- > for the NeXT, a flashy machine for users, an "insanity machine" for
- > seasoned unix people. Doesn't even pretend to be real unix. HP-UX is
-
- That's a very superficial comment which is totally false. I'm doing
- development for "traditional" unix-machines (AIX/DEC/Sun/Siemens) and use
- NeXT for cross-development, just because it gives you much less headaches
- than the others. NeXT gives you a BSD-System. You can also have X/Motif if
- you have to use it for your target platform. It's stable and FAST,
- (compilations 30-50% faster than RS6000/320 for example, even if the latter
- has the double amount of "MIPS"). Sure, you can't use all that great SW
- which NeXT gives you for free, like a great Interface-Builder, if you want
- to be "compatible". Nevertheless, almost all available free/PD-Software can
- easily be installed on NeXT, too.
-
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- Thomas Funke ** E-mail: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de
- NeXT-Developer * Unix-Consultant
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