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From: grx1...@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Dale Southard Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: PC magazine misinformation
Message-ID: <1992Apr13.200105.6961@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:01:04 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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From the April 28, 1992 issue of PC magazine
extract from the sidebar "32-Bit GUI Alternatives:  No Contest" pp.192
by William F Zachmann

"... Another Unix-related contebnder is the NeXTstep 486, from NeXT. Built
on the Macintosh operating system kernel, the object-oriented NeXTstep is
an Intel architecture version of the much praised (if little bought)
operating system developed for Steve Job's NeXT computers. NeXTstep will
require an 80486 with 8MB to 16MB of RAM.  The user version will occupy
120MB of disk space; the developer version will need a whopping 400MB. ..."

He (W.F. Zachmann) also describes with great detail the shortcommings of all
the other present/future OS's when compared to the great god WindowsNT.

My opinion(s):

1) Gee, you mean to say that my Mac has been running Mach as it's kernal
	all this time?  :-)

2) Are all PC owners this dense?? :-)

3) Is 400MB of disk still "Whopping" for developers in the PeeCee world? :-)

4) Seriously: Has NeXT been THIS BAD at making the advantages of its 
	OS/Hardware known.  (Hell, I don't own one and I know that it 
	doesn't--hasn't--won't ever run on top of a Macintosh OS kernal).  

5) Seriously:  Does any other OS (NeXTstep, Taligent, Solaris, Open Desktop)
	stand a chance in a marketplace with this type of ignorance?


-- 
Dale Southard Jr.                                 Sr. Rigger
University of Toledo                             AFF/I   SL/I
grx1...@uoft02.utoledo.edu                          D-11216
Department of Chemistry -- "Just another skydiving grad student."