Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: proposal: comp.sys.mac.NeXT Message-ID: <1990Nov9.052231.1086@eng.umd.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 05:22:31 GMT References: <1990Nov8.201931.16106@athena.mit.edu> <1990Nov8.230907.12910@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 21 In article <1990Nov8.230907.12910@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes: >I think that the discussion here has been relatively controlled, with >virtually no personal flammage. For the great part, we're debating facts >and I'm learning a lot about the Mac, and Mac users are, I hope, learning >a lot about the NeXT. Agreed. Unlike that check-mark computer. Perhaps because both the Mac and NeXT have merits, unlike that check-mark thing. It really hurts to see the same arguments advanced against the NeXT that were advanced against the Mac in the first place-- I remember seeing them (memory too small, no hard disk, no software, in the Mac case. No software, no one will want to learn anything new in the Next case), when I had a Lisa. I personally don't think the Next will succeed as a personal computer, which is what I am interested in. And since Jobs doesn't seem to have decided whether it is a PC or a workstation, it may fail for that reason. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu Tax the rich, and feed the poor -- until there are, rich no more.