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From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
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Subject: Re: Oh no ! Yet Another Thread on Mac/NeXT war.
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Date: 16 Nov 90 07:33:29 GMT
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In article <%0*^YA#@rpi.edu> Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes:
>In article <15506@imag.imag.fr>
>           gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) writes:
>> but NeXT has no vision (or I didn't understood it).
>> I'm sad of it. I like visions. It stimulates me.
>
>I believe the vision of Jobs was to raise the lowest-common-denominator.

If you pick up a copy of NeXT's latest sales literature about the
new products, you'll read about interpersonal computing as an
important capability in the 1990s.  This vision is the reason--
IMHO--that NeXT used the Mach kernel in order to implement their
OS.  I'm not sure if NeXTstep 2.0 fully supports Mach's
multi-processing capabilities; version 1.0 did not from what I
understand.

Ken
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