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From: knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:45:21 GMT
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wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
  Then it will be YOU in our place [defending an obsolescent computer]

I can't speak for anyone else, but it was not that many years ago when I
loudly defended the Mac against friends and enemies with IBM PCs.  I
argued that there was all the software available to do what most people
wanted to do with a Mac.  And this is even more true of the NeXT today.

Ten years from now I'll probably be defending a wristwatch supercomputer 
against the old hand-held supercomputer.  I believe in the power of new
and innovative technology.  And I believe the NeXT will succeed as the
Mac did.