CompuServe Messages

Gee… you're "fan noise tolerance" must be a lot better than mine. I had my A3000 in my bedroom before I switched all my software over from my olde A1000, but I found the ambient noise very annoying (I now have my A3000 in a room next to my bedroom, and find it necessary to close the door of that room, otherwise I would have difficulty nodding off at night. The one thing I liked about Steve Jobs, was his strong desire for his machines to be able to run without fans (and thus their noise) being required – unfortunately he had to change his mind. One of the many positive things going for portables is the very low noise they generate. With all the text files I seem to be reading these days, the idea of scrolling thru them quietly, while reclined on my sofa is a very nice idea <g>! I'd worry about thread diversion, but this thread has already diverged about as far as it could, so I'll ask how you find NeXtStep (speaking of Jobs). It seems to be positioned as a very user friendly object oriented layer over a powerful Unix OS, but I would assume that the software base is smaller than for an Amiga <g>!