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Date: Sun 05-Feb-1989 16:33:00 From: Unknown Subject: Re: NeXT --- not worth the effort ( > I've crashed my NeXT 3 times since I got it a few weeks ago, but for >pre-release software, I think it's great. I'd rather have NeXT 0.8 than any of >its current "production" competitors. > I've seen bad (I mean really awful) software in every vendor release >I've seen, and all are bigger players with more money and time invested than >NeXT. What's the point of the NeXT-bashing here? Are you guys disappointed that >it isn't something from the Land of Oz? I sat at a NeXt for several hours and ran lots of source code through its C compilers, and ran the programs. I tried various benchmarks, Unix utilities, games, and some big scientific calculations. It compiled them all and ran them just fine. Not one crash or even bug (and only one missing include file - easily added). As a generic Unix box it seems fine - and is quite peppy. It bogged down seriously when I tried their proprietary stuff. Perhaps that stuff is written using a bad compiler or a bad programming methodology. Or, hopefully, just "beta". >From: carlton@betelgeuse (Mike Carlton)
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