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- From: ijeff@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson)
- Subject: Re: Stalking the Ultimate Workstation?
- Message-ID: <ijeff.721616277@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1d8ek2INNfu@werple.apana.org.au> <1992Nov5.041715.27882@cs.yale.edu> <174@bytepb.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:57:57 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In <174@bytepb.UUCP> ben@bytepb.UUCP (Ben Smith @ BYTE) writes:
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- >nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
-
- >The SGI, on the other hand, also supports display PS in its
- >window driver (as well as X and GL), and so does an admirable job
- >of cranking out the PS. The basic Indigo (without graphics
- >boards) is also well designed for office level DTP.
-
- >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 can also run Xapps on the NeXT without difficulty. It's just
- that there are few reasons to do it. CAD might be the only reason.
- What you win with NeXT is the level of integration and usability of
- the applications. There is nothing like it on any platform, just like
- for 3D performance and support there is nothing like SGI!
-
- For a business user NeXT is probably a better machine. But just the same
- I was sorry to see the Indigo do so badly in the rating scheme, and as for
- the others well you won't catch me going back to a single user 1 task machine
- ever.
-
-
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- Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please!
- ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
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