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- From: gstecker@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Chris Stecker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: New SUN's, Bad news for NeXT?
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 17:40:07 GMT
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- It seems to me that Sun's entry into low-cost desktop machines may certainly
- speell doom for NeXT hardware. IMHO, when NeXTstep gets ported to SPARC,
- there really won't be much of a reason to buy a real NeXT. At $10000 SRP
- ($7330 here at the UCSD bookstore), a 19color,16/424 SPARCstation LX offers
- acceptable graphics capability (GXplus only, though, and not apparently up-
- gradeable to 24 bit/#D solids) for NeXTStep, for less than a NSTC 16/400.
- The advantages with the sun being expandability, speed, etc. The stats may
- not tell the whole truth, but I think that there is a difference between the
- Sun's 59 MIPS and the 25 MIPS of the NSTC. The only thing lacking from
- these new Suns is an OS that's worth as much as the CD-ROM it's published
- on :-) I figure that by the time NeXT ports to SPARC (they'll probably be
- taking their own sweet time :-), my NSC will be obsolete anyway, and I'll
- have to buy a Sun.
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- If NeXT pushes their software the right way, (first to PC owners, then to
- Sun owners--and especially new Sun owners, who buy these new desktop machines,
- and then to buyers of Taligent/PowerPC machines, as an intaligent:) OS option)
- they could wind up with the default OS of the NeXT decade.
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- Like Case, in Gibson's Neuromancer, who must transcend the "meat" existence
- of his body and exist only in the information paradise of the net, the NeXT
- needs to transcend its hardware-bound existence, and live as a pure, un-
- compromised operating system. (Forgive the Lit-Crit analysis, it's just I've
- been writing these papers...:-)
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- Chris Stecker gstecker@ucsd.edu
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