Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!ceomax!gillett From: gillett@ceomax..dec.com (Christopher Gillett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Stupid Question about 'PostMaster' software... Message-ID: <436@e2big.mko.dec.com> Date: 31 Jul 90 17:46:51 GMT References: Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com Reply-To: gillett@ceomax.dec.com (Christopher Gillett) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Semiconductor Engineering Group Lines: 35 In article mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Mashyna) writes: >> Flame On..... >> And why don't those BusinessLand people understand how nifty, neat, >> and cool the NeXT really is? >> .....Flame Off. > >I love it when you can hear them flipping through their price sheets over >the phone. It really is amasing that with all the computer equipment in >a computer that no one knows how to use one. Yup, that always struck me as a little strange. What I thought was bizarre was going into one of these stores, seeing a complete NeXT outfit (machine, laser printer, etc) sitting *turned off* and then being told that I couldn't boot it up because "nobody here knows anything about it". If I were a computer store owner, I'd have the thing right up front by the windows running cool software, playing music, singing, etc. If nothing else, the NeXT is the most radical looking machine in the place. The sad thing about it, of course, is that the machine will never gain the acceptance that it deserves because nobody knows how to market it. These guys should have taken a lesson from the Commodore Amiga people (who have, arguably, the most- or second-most cool machine around). Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it..... So, what about this PostMaster software? I still haven't heard anything about it. Anybody know anything about it? #include /Chris --- Christopher Gillett gillett@ceomax.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation {decwrl,decpa}!ceomax.dec.com!gillett Hudson, Taxachusetts (508) 568-7172