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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Software and NeXT
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Date: 17 Oct 90 11:26:18 GMT
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In article <0b6Z=C200WBK83mlAX@andrew.cmu.edu>, ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
> Not the case.  You obviously haven't seen the Software and Periferals
> Catalog for NeXT.  There are hundreds of big names producing software
> that previously you could only find on the mac.  Every program that I
> really use on my mac I can also get for the NeXT (example: SoftPC. I
> can't imagine how fast that would be). 

Not the ones I use, though (MIDI sequencing software).

> Like I keep saying, there is no good argument (besides personal
> preference) against NeXT.

	i.	I can't buy one here.

	ii.	I can't get support.

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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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