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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT's and NeXT
Message-ID: <927@redford.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 21:28:41 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@redford.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>
>But then again, the NeXT isn't much of a Unix box.  The Unix consultants
>I work with are quick to point that the NeXT "just happens to run Unix"
>instead of being designed as a Unix box.  If you've used a Sun Sparcstation
>or a DECStation, you'll know what I mean.
>

What?!  This makes no sense whatsoever.  What is it about the NeXT that
makes it "not much of a Unix box"?  Unix is designed to run on all sorts
of vanilla hardware.  Of course, it runs well on fast hardware, which the
68040-based NeXT certainly is.  If anything, the NeXT is more than just
a Unix box, considering its audio-visual capabilities.
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