CompuServe Messages

Rich: Yes, I do think the Indy will end up costing much more than the 5k base price, oh well, I don't need it THAT badly. I did order NextStep 3.1 for 486 today tho. They currently have a special deal on where you can get NS3.1 for $299.00 for the complete system, both user & development systems. It comes on 2 CDROMs, and a 3.5" boot disk, and I'll be replacing the Interactive Unix on my PC with it. The only 'gotcha' to the deal is that it's NOT upgradable, when NS3.2 comes out, and you wanna get it, you gotta pay full price. Of course there's nothing stopping you from continuing on with NS3.1 as long as you want. I think it's funny that now that the NeXT machine isn't a threat to the Amiga anymore, I don't mind looking at it's OS as a replacement for the character based Unix I was using (NextStep is basically an X windows like GUI on top of BSD Unix), especially considering that with their special deal the entire NextStep 3.1 OS is cheaper than I'd have to pay for any version of X for my PC (either from Interactive [now Sun], or 3rd party). As for the pricing of apps for the Indy (or any other computer), I think it's absolutely DISGUSTING how the software companies RAPE the users of non MS-DOS machines. I looked into a couple of software packages for my Unix 486 machine, and was shocked at the prices! While I realise there are costs to porting software, I can't believe that something that sells for $500.00 on a PC (already overpriced if you ask me!) should sell for double or more on a Unix machine? As I'm gonna have to get a larger HD than I currently have in my PC to run NextStep, I'm probably going to have a small (around 50M or so) DOS partition, and for the first time in a LONG time have a machine that can bootup into real MS-DOS. It's gotten to the point that even with DOS being brain dead, some of the games available on it look really nice. // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale