Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!contact!ileaf!io!pme From: pme@io.UUCP (Paul English x3168) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: how to get a NeXT... Message-ID: <1129@io.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 89 14:27:19 GMT References: <1125@io.UUCP> <1236@zygot.UUCP> Reply-To: pme@ileaf.com (Paul English) Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <1236@zygot.UUCP> bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes: >> I have an idea. Here's how NeXT could generate some hacker enthusiasm >> and programming on the NeXT, while doing something fun: >> Maybe NeXT should have an informal contest for the best original >> program on the NeXT, where the prize would be a NeXT system! By >Yeah, the only problem is, for the most part, you would need a NeXT to >enter the contest, so then what do you need with annother one??? one >for each hand :-)? Well, most NeXTs that I know about are in universities, thus I would guess that a very large fraction of NeXT programmers do not own a NeXT themselves. -- Paul English Interleaf: pme@ileaf.com, ...!{sun!sunne,mit-eddie}!ileaf!pme UMass/Boston: pme@umb.edu, ...!harvard!umb!pme (umb has better email service)