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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.051220.19093@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <BxoGH5.9xn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 05:12:20 GMT
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- In article <BxoGH5.9xn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- writes:
- > nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- >
- > >In article <BxMnKq.A45@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
- > >Lemson) writes:
- > >>
- > >> What is power if users aren't productive?
- >
- > >Q. What is elegance without muscle?
- >
- > >A. NeXTstep 3.0 on our NeXTs.
- >
- > Personally, I think that 3.0 on a 16 MB mono machine runs as fast as
- > I could expect a machine of that price to run. I think that 3.0 on
- > a 32 MB color machine runs as fast as most users would expect a
- > personal computer to run. That is, a computer that is mostly used
- > by one person. (explicit definition of PC in my eyes)
-
- I think that's reasonable. Now get NeXT to lower the price to
- that of a personal computer.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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