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From: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A kind word...
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Date: 22 Nov 89 14:33:43 GMT
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Reply-To: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
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In article <4275@helios.ee.lbl.gov> stefan@csam.lbl.gov (Stefan gottschalk) writes:
>
>...the NeXT's value-  "it's too slow," or "it's too expensive," or "it doesn't 
>have any software," or "it doesn't run X or any other window system anything's 
>written for." ...

I am tired of hearing this argument.  In 1984 an 1985 I heard these same
arguments about the Macintosh.  Noone is arguing that it won't succeed now.
When the PC was first introduced, lots of people were saying it wasn't worth
the money because it couldn't run "REAL" programs (like SAS) but now it does
run them.

Look at the NeXT for what it provides.  A nice user interface with a powerful
operating system and hardware underneath.  The only system that has as nice
a userinterface is the Macintosh but it doesn't have the hardware that the
NeXT has.  SUN & co. are ~18 months behind on the user interface so the 
biggest threat to the success of the NeXT is how quickly Apple can upgrade
their operating system to have some of the features of mach (IPC, etc.)

Right now, it is not a machine for everyone.  However, as more software is
developed it will solve the needs of more people; this should cause more
developers to write programs for it and then the cycle begins.
-- 
Larry Landry
University of Rochester