aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) (04/22/91)
I did a silly little experiment the other day - I masqueraded as a non-NeXT
user and posted some queries on some of the UNIX forums asking people about
what they thought of the NeXT, claiming that I was "looking at buying one".
Aside from a few idiotic flames about posting on the wrong forums and not
cross-posting properly (I posted it twice instead of cross - posting; oh,
woe is me, I shall spend the rest of my days grieving my sins... ) there was
only one sus criticism: that NeXT uses a 68000 processor ("Dead", as they
say in Unix Snobville) rather than a RISC unit.
Well, they don't hate the NeXT out there by any means, if this is
representative. Indeed, most people thought it was a good package for what I
was claiming to want it for.
Strange, isn't it, how the choice of a computer is such an emotional thing?
I always thought that the term "Big-Endian" and "Little-Endian", while
rather specific in the computer world, was very appropriate when it came to
describing two fundamentally, yet trivially different ways of doing
something - interested readers should review their Gulliver's Travels if
they don't know what I'm talking about : ) Computer users are SO much like
Lilliputians.
I shall report further when more mail arrives.
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