Help in selecting a workstation.

[Francis Ouellette]

mathog at seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog) writes:

>>>1)  Do you recommend any specific manufacturer?  Why?
>> 
>>Although they don't make their own hardware any more, I'd still recommend
>>looking at NeXT...

>Are you out of your mind?  The hardware side of the company is already gone
>and the software side is uncertain at best.  You're just asking to get
>burned if you buy in now.

 ...  and it isn't really a number cruncher.  I would hazard an
 educated guess that the NeXT platform will survive in the business
 world, but I don't see it in the scince labs ...


regards,

francis


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