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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: marketing (was: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include
Message-ID: <3583@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 12:06:51 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu writes:
> 
> Here's one thing you can't get a Mac+software to do for under
> $3000.00: hook it onto the net and read and write to this very
> newsgroup. And you should be reading comp.sys.mac anyway.
> Take it on over there.

Really?  I find this tough to believe.  You can do this exact same thing for
less than a thousand dollars with an IBM PC clone.  There's at least four
UUCP/news packages freely distributed for the IBM.
I know the exact point at which *I* fell in love with the NeXT.  I went to a
computer show a week or two ago and played with one for a bit.  I thought it
was a fairly nifty implementation of the a "mousy" thingie, and I liked having
all that real estate on the screen.  (The small Macs make me feel quite
claustrophobic now.)  Then I clicked on this icon of a termainal and it brought
up a large window with a lovely '$' at the bottom.  I typed 'vi' and I was in
heaven.  (No jokes about me being a sicko for liking vi, please.  :-))

cjs
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