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Sorry but you're totally missing something if you think you can compare to a Mac or 'PC' of it's time. Not only did it have a lot of special peripherals but t
by SG- 13y ago
Sorry but you're totally missing something if you think you can compare to a Mac or 'PC' of it's time. Not only did it have a lot of special peripherals but the entire OS and environment is what made it special.
Like Apple today, you have to look at the entire package. The difference being that Apple mostly targets the general consumer today while NeXT was targeting a more advanced and smaller but richer market back then.
- ajross 13y agoMissing what? These arguments were all had on the internet at the time, there's nothing we can add. Suffice it to say that the idea that an "environment" can make up for a severe performance handicap is a uniquely modern one informed by the existence of dual core multi-GHz devices that fit in a pocket. If you were doing CAD work in 1990, you might not be so forgiving of a device that cost almost as much as a years salary for its user. And the market wasn't.
- nijk 13y agoMy employer spends far more on computers than staff.
- reeses 13y agoThe entry models were always dogs regarding storage. The first cubes had those horrid MO drives and nothing else and the first stations had 105MB(?) drives that couldn't hold a full OS installation. No Shakespeare for you!