unhd (Thomas J. Baker) (10/23/90)
Thanks to all the people who responded to my previous posting. I have some new questions now. Has NeXT fixed the problem with the serial ports? I was reading a back issue of Tao and it mentioned that high speed modems give the NeXT problems. Has this been addressed? Any good publications on the NeXT? Is there a NeXTweek? I find that MacWeek is better than most of the other mac publications. Now for the important stuff. Has anyone actually seen a color station yet? I have concerns that since the '040 is doing all the work for 16-bit color, it may be pretty slow. I'm now considering waiting on the color and just going for a cube but I know that I really also don't need 32-bit color either (a proposed eventual purchase of a NeXTdimension board.) The 16-bit color would be just fine if it wasn't too slow. I have heard that the dimension board is as fast or faster than 2-bit color on a station or cube. How does the 16-bit color compare on the color station? Any thoughts on this matter? How flexible is the deal with '030 cube now, '040 when available? Could a 40Mb drive be substituted for the 330MB so I could get a 3rd party drive and still get an optical? I know it would be slow at first but later... The reason I asked previously if a NeXT could be purchased without a hard drive and then use the floppy to boot utilities is to boot disk formatting and data restoring software to start from a non-preformatted (3rd party) drive. Since you can't buy a NeXT without a hard drive, the point is moot. That about does it for now...Thanks in advance for any information possible. tjb ____________________________________________________________________________ | Thomas J. Baker INTERNET: tjb@unhd.unh.edu | | Computing and Information Services USENET: uunet!unhd!tjb | | Kingsbury Hall, University of New Hampshire BITNET: T_BAKER@UNHH.BITNET | | Durham, NH 03824 Voice: (603) 862-4490 | | | | "But I'm well read and I've heard it said | | a hundred times, maybe less, maybe more..." | |__________________________________________________________________________|