Perhaps, but why would one have wanted one of them back then? In fact, why
would one want one now?
BTW, when the NEXT boxes first came out, we had a few of them sitting around
for people to look at and play with. I personally was not impressed. They
were EXTREMELY low on gigaflops per picobuck and, aside from the OS, I don't
remember any applications that didn't have the same look and feel as a small
mono-MAC costing ~1/10 as much.
The problem with these machines, as borne out by the market, is that they
weren't what the home user wanted. They weren't what I wanted either. I
recently saw a NEXT cube for sale in a thrift store complete with its original
(Black) laser printer for $10 for the whole shootin'match, and it was running.
AFAIK, nobody bought it. I haven't been back to see whether it's sold yet,
but it's been a couple of weeks. The laser printer had been there a week or
two longer.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
> >No, I wouldn't pay that much, but I wouldn't pay out more than, say $25 for
> >all the UNIX boxes on the planet either, and that only if they were already
> >broken down into their varous scrap types, e.g. steel, aluminum, plastics,
> >etc. I've yet to see even one piece of software that would be of serious
use
> >to me that runs under UNIX. I know that I could force myself to use
Netscape,
> >but I really don't want to.
>
> Not comparing them to today's Windows machines but to the PC
> offerings out during the same timeframe, I doubt you really could've
> found a PC comparable in capabilities to Unix workstations such as
> the SGI machines, for running applications such as Lightwave 3D, or
> the NeXT machines, for such things as Mathmatica and other
> scientific-type apps. The hardware on PC's has only in the last few
> years caught up to the various workstations in video capabilities and
> the CPU's have yet to come near the MIPS and DEC Alpha processors
> except in terms of raw clockspeed. Of course, you paid for machines
> of this level, but you got a lot more as well.
>
> With Mac OS X, more new machines are shipping with a UNIX
> derived OS than ever before. With so many home machines being
> networked, a secure OS is becoming a must....something Windows has
> shown time and again to fall short on. Plus, I'd use the freely
> downloadable and time-proven Apache webserver over the similar
> NT/2000 offerings any day given it's better track record and wider
> installed base.
>
> Jeff
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Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 21:04:39 BST