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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Keywords: next vs mac
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dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com(Dennis Francis Heffernan) writes:
>c) I'm no big fan of A/UX, but it looks like a more useful
>version of Unix than what NeXT is fobbing off.

Where's the smiley?  NeXT's Unix is a very complete implementation of
4.3 BSD Unix, one of the most stable and popular Unixes around.  The
kernel is Mach, one of the most advanced kernels around with facilities
for things like parallel processing.  Won't see that on a Mac anytime
soon.  

As a NeXT user and a Mac owner, I can tell you that the Mac OS crashes
much much more often than the NeXT's.  

By the way, 4.3 BSD Unix is also on the Suns and is the dominant operating
system for university minicomputers. 4.3 BSD and AT&T's System V are the
dominant Unixes, period.  4.3 BSD, in many people's opinion, is the more
powerful of the two.