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From: rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: NeXT competitors
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Date: 27 Nov 89 03:05:25 GMT
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>I think the real competition for the NeXT (or Sun, for that matter) is
>a 486 box running either SCO UNIX V 3.2 or Interactive 386/ix.

You should not compare things that exist and such that don't.
A fair comparison, in a time when 486 have BUGS, is a 386.
If you want to compare the nonexisting 486-market with the NeXT
then compare it with the next NeXT: 68040, DSP, multiprocessing
(MACH) etc.

Ronald
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