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From: jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: A kind word...
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Date: 22 Nov 89 18:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jpd00964    Nov 22 12:42:00 1989


The real question is not whether the NeXT will succeed or not, it's what can
it succeed as?

1>  It has created a new standard for workstations.  One that will last quite
	a long time.  
2>  The company tech support and user support will also set standards for 
	excellence.
3>  It quite possibly may become the first reasonably priced distributed 
	process object-oriented mainframe.  (That means a bunch of them in
	a network all doing the same things) (very oversimplified :->)

Will it be a success at workstations, most likely.
Will it be a success at user support, It won't hurt it.
Will it be a success as a distributed processor, most likely.
Will it be a success as a personal computer, quite unlikely in the near future.

BTW-it actually has quite a large software base.  Anything that runs under 
Un*x will run, and I heard a rumor about SUN 68030 binaries can be atomed over.

MiKE RuTMaN
SoFTMeD