home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.next.advocasy
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!news
- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: Stalking the Ultimate Workstation?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.051756.22798@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.biology.yale.edu
- Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <174@bytepb.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 05:17:56 GMT
- Lines: 27
-
- In article <174@bytepb.UUCP> ben@bytepb.UUCP (Ben Smith @ BYTE) writes:
-
- > My argument for the SGI is its ability to do a wider range of
- > applications. The NeXT is limited to NeXTstep applications--they
- > are nice, but there aren't that many and they tend to be quite
- > different from anything else.
-
- You should get out more often, Ben.
-
- There have been 3rd party X products available for the
- NeXT for years now. They are fast, support color,
- rootless windows (X window inside a NeXTstep window),
- and fully compliant.
-
- There are also ports of software widely used on other
- platforms, including Word Perfect, Frame, Wingz...
- although I'd have to agree the native NeXT apps are far
- more impressive, especially on the Turbo Color
- machines - you know the machine that Byte *should* have
- used in the comparison to the Indigo, HP, R6000, etc.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
- PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
-
- Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
-
-