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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Next intro: any effect on Mac _high-end_ prices?
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.235719.19723@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 23:57:19 GMT
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I'm in a sharing mood, so I'll share my thoughts on this subject, hit "n"
now to pass it by quick!

Ok, your choice!
ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>In article .... (Robert Minich) writes:
>>  So, the IIfx and the IIci are not that significant to Apple's product 
>>line? They're aimed at a similar audience who wants and can afford to
>>pay for some performance. In that market, NeXT has a basic offering
>>that, IMHO as a die hard Mac user, walks all over the IIfx at a third
>>the cost. (Add up monitor, enet card, some software, ...)  The new
>>NeXTs won't magically rise to preeminence because of (1) it's heart of
>>UNIX (2) it's not already in millions of offices and (3) it has a
>>small, high priced software base.
>	Robert, you missed the whole point... Unix is NOT for everyone.
>	The only thing that NeXT Runs under is Unix...While the IIci
Norman, you missed the whole point...  Robert isn't talking about Unix 
being for everyone.  In fact, I get frustrated when I sit in front of
a NeXT and can't get at the Unix part right off.  I haven't sat in front
of one so much, but the similarity between the NeXT's setting the nitty-
gritty of the os functioning behind a pretty face and the Macintosh's 
setting the .... is striking (hmmm, I wonder why).  (I'm no NeXTpert,
so if I miss something, correct me.)
In reply to Robert's points:  1) eeehhhhh, 2) yes, 3) o mai oui (oh my yes).
There is a completely non-CS department on campus that ordered a NeXT over
the original planned Macintosh.  And they already *have* Mac(s).  And this
is a big Mac campus.  
Please construe nothing in my post against Macs, no comment about a certain
Scul.....

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