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Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
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Date: 8 Dec 89 05:05:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ac6y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Jiro Nakamura)
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> Who will buy the NeXT? Students?

   Well, in reference to that question, maybe I should give an answer.
I am one of the few undergraduates to possess a NeXT, the only one
to have bought one with his own money ($7500 via Cornell, 8mb OD only).
As far as I am aware, there is one other grad student in California
who owns a NeXT, other than from that, student reception to the NeXT's
has been cold when it gets down to the pocketbook.
   Cornell has one of the largest NeXT sites, 30 or so public machines,
which is one major reason I chose to come here.
   What am I using my NeXT for? Well, other than from coursework, I am
also one of the few student developers, and maybe the only idependent
student developer (I am independent of Cornell and everyone else).
   I am currently finishing off a ChristmasWare program called Cassandra
which is a real-time spiffy scheduler (GUI of course). It took me over a 
year to write this on my old machine, 2 months on the NeXT with IB. IB
is truly amazing. Look for it on the networks before Christmas.
   Other projects (winter break projects): Voice spectrometer for 
the psycholinguists and linguists out there, a Postscript-> Dot Matrix
Printer driver (god help me), and a Macintalk-like hack.
   The people at NeXT (hi ali!) and at Cornell have been very good to me.
Personally, I'm glad I picked the NeXT over a toaster, though the OD
has been boggin me down a bit. Oh well, once I get my accelerator and then
my 330(dreams dreams dreams...). Sorry for my ramblings.

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