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Subject: Re: Oh no ! Yet Another Thread on Mac/NeXT war.
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gourdol@imag.imag.fr writes:
>er, Steve, is the NeXT a personnal computer or a workstation

Can't speak for Jobs, but someone in the NeXT newsgroup mentioned that they
use a NeXT because it is both a workstation and a personal computer.  
How many have you have used a workstation or even a minicomputer running
Unix and thought, gee, I wish you could do some of this on a Mac?  How many
have used Macs and thought, gee, I wish I could do things this way on a
workstatio or on my university computer?  The NeXT incorporates a lot of the
best of both worlds:the Mac's nice interface and the power of Unix.  It
is a significant improvement over A/UX on the Mac in that the NeXT hides 
Unix from the user:  the functionality is there, but the user doesn't have
to know Unix commands or type on a command line.