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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: An unfulfilled promise...
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Date: 28 Aug 90 21:54:15 GMT
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In-Reply-To: declan@portia.Stanford.EDU's message of 19 Aug 90 19:19:12 GMT

In article <1990Aug19.191912.24613@portia.Stanford.EDU> declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh) writes:

   By Bart Ziegler, Associated Press
   ...
   An additional problem for NeXT is the machine's unique operating
   system, the base layer of software that controls internal computer
   functions.  It makes the NeXT incompatible with other computers at
   a time when the industry is moving toward interchangeable systems.
   Software must be specially tailored for the NeXT -- it can't use
   popular off-the-shelf software such as Lotus 1-2-3.

The NeXT is incompatible with MS-DOS IBM-compatible Personal
Computers, and that's a Good Thing (aesthetically, if not yet in the
market).  Their use of (something with the flavor of) UNIX puts the
cube in a different class of competitors, and a different class of
interchangeability.

PeeCee myopia strikes.  Sigh...