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From: alandail@applelink.apple.com (Alan Dail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: marketing (was: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv)
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.135753.21624@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Oct 90 13:57:53 GMT
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In article <9303@helios.TAMU.EDU>, cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick)
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.

You sure can read this newsgroup with a Macintosh as that is how I am reading
it now.  There is a program called TCP/Connect II that has FTP, TELNET, NEWS
& MAIL (although mail requires a POP server to receive mail).  This software
does not even require ethernet on the mac, only an AppleTalk to ethernet
gatway somewhere on the network.  So, you can read NEWS with a $999 Macintosh
Classic.

Why do you think Mac users shouldn't read comp.sys.next.  Don't you think
that a lot of mac users are greatly interested in the NeXT.  After all, Steve
Jobs is the father of both systems.  Personally, as a mac user since 1984,
I am very interested in NeXT.  As a programmer, I am very impressed with
interface builder.  NeXT is the first computer I've seen since the Mac was 
introduced that I am would consider giving up my mac for.  I am also, very 
impressed with price of the NeXTStation 105 relative to Macintosh prices.  
However, you cant develop software with this configuration, and it costs 
$2000 to get 235 megabytes more disk space.

Also, I still think 3rd party products are expensive compaired to Macintosh.  
This is especially suprising since Interface Builder cuts development time 
in half. Here are some examples from the fall catalog.

cube floppy 1.4  $795 (and I though Apple charged a lot for a floppy disk)
WingZ $699
Adobe Plus Pack $495 (are they crazy, this one doesn't even require any work
to develop the NeXT version)
FORTRAN $995
Modula-2 $495


Alan--
Alan Dail
NASA/Langley Research Center
ALANDAIL@applelink.apple.com