Preludes to Rhapsody
via Stepwise
>Now I know that the actual machine isn't going any
faster in terms of raw computing cycles, but the
interactivity of the interface is almost unbelievable.
I mean it, you can never see this thing slow down.
This is the fastest behaving machine I've ever used.
It's WAYYYY faster than my Mac or NT boxes,
blowing the Solaris and SGI boxes away too.<
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NeXT Impressions
via MacOS Rumors
A reader of Mac OS Rumors also forwarded this information about his
experience with NeXT Station Color (a 68040/25mhz-based computer,
roughly equivalent to a Quadra 700, as this reader notes):
>When Apple announced their purchase of NeXT, I immediatelly bought a
NeXT Station Color (refered to, in NeXT world, as the "color slab"), in
order to get aquainted with OPENSTEP, as I will eventually have to
migrate, as a developer, to that platform.
The "color slab", hardware-wise, is much like a Quadra 700 (an '040 at
25mhz). Mine's got 16megs of RAM, and a 400meg hard drive which serves
both OS and swap requirements (and then some room for a bunch of files).
I've never been able to crash the machine. Never. And I really tortured it:
launching up to 20 applications (both big and small), doing all kind of
crazy stuff that I'd be scared to do on the Mac (trashing opened
documents/folders, moving files around as they're in use, etc). I even pulled
the plug while the machine was in heavy disk usage. Guess what?
NEXTSTEP will not launch until it has automaticaaly repaired it's disk
structure--at startup. When you're up and running, you just *know* that your
disk doesn't require a Norton Disk Doctor session.
The color slab also performs as fast as a PowerMac 8100/66, and faster in
some operations. It's as smooth, and clearly shows how much superior
NEXTSTEP is over MacOS and Win95.<
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