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Re: Next computer
« on: April 16, 2008, 11:43:36 AM »
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trekiej wrote:
Has anyone here ever owned a Next computer?
Tells us about it.


I own a NeXT machine... ok it's called a MacBook Pro... but it was designed by NeXT engineers and it runs the NeXT operating system... ok it's called MacOS X... but it was designed by NeXT engineers... and the company is run by the guy who set up and ran NeXT computers... so yeah, I own a NeXT machine and it's very nice :-)


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Re: Next computer
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2008, 08:56:09 AM »
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sigmason wrote:
I'll admit I'm being a bit too broad with that comparison.

I'm referring to the some of the aspects of the UI more then the general look and feel.

Here's a fairly lengthy look at various graphical UIs...
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/taouu.html


Sigmason


The Amiga information on that site ranges from the inaccurate... ¨Weak graphics hardware¨ to the just plain wrong... ¨The Amiga suffered from the same limitaion as the Macintosh, no preemptive multitasking¨

Shame...  :-x