10-09-2011, 04:21 PM
I used one of the first NeXT boxes in college for an assembly language course.
It was an amazing device in many ways but the magneto drive was tragically dog-slow, even for 1989. To call it "dog-slow" is an insult to even the slowest dog, to be honest. And while the display architecture and the laser printer (yes, there were NeXT laser printers) were way ahead of their time, the absurd cost, unwieldiness, and general user experience of the machine were fatal flaws.
We were calling them LaST machines by the end of the semester.
It was an amazing device in many ways but the magneto drive was tragically dog-slow, even for 1989. To call it "dog-slow" is an insult to even the slowest dog, to be honest. And while the display architecture and the laser printer (yes, there were NeXT laser printers) were way ahead of their time, the absurd cost, unwieldiness, and general user experience of the machine were fatal flaws.
We were calling them LaST machines by the end of the semester.