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From: walters@grebyn.com (Chris Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Why the big price jump?
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Date: 22 Sep 90 13:59:05 GMT
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In article <2406@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com 
(Jim Mann) writes:

>
>Don't get me wrong. I love my NeXT, and hope that more businesses make 
>use of them. But as a personal computer?  Unless you have money to burn,
>or unless you have to do something very specialized and don't have a choice,
>a Mac or a PC is still the way to go for most people.
>                     

I think you've got it backward... with all the bundled software you
are VERY reasonably equipped for both business and personal computing.
You have almost everything you need!  Spreadsheets, WP, and DTP are
not exactly specialized tasks in the business or home computing
world anymore :-)

>
>Jim Mann
>Stratus Computer
>jmann@es.stratus.com

  -- Chris