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Date: Sun 12-Nov-1991 00:22:12 From: stoecker@triton.unm.edu Subject: NeXT / SUN Comparison Hi, I am researching the future (hopefully, near future) purchase of a personal workstation. I would be using the workstation for applied mathematics research in a university setting. In the department I am familiar with, the machine of choice is the SUN (IPC flavor I think). I would be interested in a NeXTcube - SPARCstation comparison. Why buy NeXT? Price? Features? Speed? Is the NeXT machine useful for other than application development and amusement from Mathematica? I program (enough to get by) in Fortran. I believe I have seen a Fortran compiler for the NeXT (Absoft, maybe). Is the compiler any good? Any mathematicians/engineers/others who use the compiler extensively? Any good 2-D, 3-D plotting packages out there for the NeXT (ala DISSPLA we use here on the SUN machines)? Personally, I am leaning toward a NeXTcube. Should I wait a few months (for better price/performance)? But if the majority of users in academics doing research use SPARCstations, why not go with the flow? Thanks for your time and consideration. Mike Stoecker
Date: Sun 16-Nov-1991 22:17:02 From: kumeda@beach.csulb.edu (Andy Kumeda) Subject: Re: NeXT / SUN Comparison In article <p1vd43+@lynx.unm.edu> stoecker@triton.unm.edu () writes: >Hi, I am researching the future (hopefully, near future) purchase >of a personal workstation. I would be using the workstation for >applied mathematics research in a university setting. In the >department I am familiar with, the machine of choice is the SUN >(IPC flavor I think). > >I would be interested in a NeXTcube - SPARCstation comparison. Why >buy NeXT? Price? Features? Speed? Is the NeXT machine useful for >other than application development and amusement from Mathematica? > >I program (enough to get by) in Fortran. I believe I have seen a >Fortran compiler for the NeXT (Absoft, maybe). Is the compiler any >good? Any mathematicians/engineers/others who use the compiler extensively? >Any good 2-D, 3-D plotting packages out there for the NeXT (ala DISSPLA >we use here on the SUN machines)? > >Personally, I am leaning toward a NeXTcube. Should I wait a few months (for >better price/performance)? But if the majority of users in academics doing >research use SPARCstations, why not go with the flow? > >Thanks for your time and consideration. > >Mike Stoecker Check out the new Sun vs NeXT video recently offered by NeXT.
Date: Sun 17-Nov-1991 04:04:11 From: cafe@cbnewse.cb.att.com (richard.dib) Subject: Re: NeXT / SUN Comparison > Check out the new Sun vs NeXT video recently offered by NeXT. > > -- > /\ |\ ||\ \ / || Andy Kumeda > /==\| \||_\ | || California State University, Long Beach > || School of Computer Engineering > 'Life is a boondoggle!' || Internet: kumeda@beach.csulb.edu (NeXT Mail) What Sun vs NeXT video? How can I obtain it? Richard
Date: Sun 20-Nov-1991 21:37:54 From: kumeda@beach.csulb.edu (Andy Kumeda) Subject: Re: NeXT / SUN Comparison In article <1991Nov17.040411.2258@cbnewse.cb.att.com> cafe@cbnewse.cb.att.com (richard.dib) writes: >What Sun vs NeXT video? How can I obtain it? > >Richard Call 1-800-TRY-NeXT
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