umcharl3@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mike Charlton) (11/04/90)
Hi all. I know this has probably been hashed through a number of times,
but I'm thinking of buying a NeXT and I'd like to confirm what I get with
it (in regards to software). From what I've been reading here, If I get
the NeXTStation with a 105 Mb hard drive, then it doesn't come with the
C compiler and a few other things. I've heard that I can get this software
from somebody if I have enough disk space. The other thing I heard was that
Mathematica, Sybase, and Lisp aren't part of this deal, but that if I
get the NeXT as part of the education deal (which I will) that I can get
Mathematica. Basically, I want to use the machine for mail, programming
(in C, but I would have liked to use Lisp as well. Oh well, there's always
XLisp. It shouldn't bee too hard to port.), and word processing. I would
also like to use TeX. I have an 80 Mb SCSI external hard drive which I
would like to add on to the system. So my questions (in order of decreasing
importance) are:
Will it be difficult to get most of the software that I want?
Can I hook up my hard drive to the NeXT? (I can't see why not)
Will 80 Megs be enough additional storage?
Will it eventually be possible to add colour to a mono
NeXTStation? (Where did that question come from?)
Thanks for any help,
Mike Charltonbostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) (11/04/90)
In article <1990Nov3.212031.8696@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcharl3@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mike Charlton) writes: > Will 80 Megs be enough additional storage? Well, I have heard some of the same things as you. First, 80 megs will help, but will NOT be enough for all of the bundled software (105+80=185 MB, still a bout 20 MB short) According to BYTE, if you get the Rel 2.0 software, you will be missing a lot of stuff -- Order the larger hard disk. > Will it eventually be possible to add colour to a mono > NeXTStation? (Where did that question come from?) According to BYTE, a mono NeXTstation will NEVER be upgradeable to a Color NeXTstation. Get a NeXTcube instead if you wan eventual color. > Thanks for any help, > Mike Charlton No problem. - Vareck