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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
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Subject: Re: NeXT- what a ripoff!!!!
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Date: 14 Nov 90 15:15:13 GMT
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In article <15500071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>     And settle for machines that pale in the face of his past creations?
>The man who brought out the Apple II and the Mac surely deserves more respect
>for creating the unmatched environments that these machines have created.
>Now he's doing it again, as strongly as the Apple II back in that late 70s,
>with a new machine that again shadows over it's competition for the same
>reasons.  It gives people an excellent environment to work.  This is easy to
>see when you take into account that most people I know would rather work on
>a NeXT, then a Mac, then maybe even an Apple II (as I am now) before anything
>else.  Combining a superior GUI and a CLI (which happens to be 4.3 BSD UNIX)
>has not come about before at this price range (see "arguably better..." above.)
>     The Amiga is nice.  That is, however, all that it is.
>			
>
>							Ken.


"That brought us the mac" - personally I think he should be shot.

The Mac is, and always will be the most boring machine ever. An attempt to
make computers useful by cutting off as much power as possible.
The Next may still be a success. The basic concept is sound, execution is
sound. The question is timing, Next will need lots of good, affordable software
in order to compete with amiga, m*c, pc, sparc, atari, archimedes and other 
machines rushing into this niche. I wish it luck but I have seen nothing yet
that is as fun and rewarding to use as my amiga.

Jorgen
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