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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac LC or NEXT
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Date: 31 Jan 91 16:24:08 GMT
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In article <md9G!eib@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>Will that give Apple 10% of the market?  How many Mac's has Apple
>sold?  There are anywhere from 25 to 40 million DOS machines.  If you
>want that warm and fuzzy feeling of owning a machine that everyone
>else owns, buy a PC.
>
>NeXT is starting to catch on.  The lack of software is its main
>problem, but they do have some big names like Word Perfect, Lotus,
>FrameMaker, Quark XPress, and Adobe writing software for the NeXT.
>Pick up a the first issue of NeXT World, and read comp.sys.next for a
>couple of weeks.  That should give you some idea of how NeXT is doing.
>
>-Mike

Who are you, anyway?

For a week or so now, this current Mac/NeXT war has been going on, and your
name has become increasingly familiar.  It seems as though you are the *entire*
NeXT side of this conversation.  It's been stated before that the NeXT is not 
truly a home computer. I have no *valid reason* to own anything more than my
Classic, with the possible exception of a few serious number-crunching programs.
If I want number crunching... I'll use a mainframe at my school/employment.

To modify a subject line of a few months ago...
Surely a VAX 9000 blows a NeXT away!

I've spent considerable time with a Mac IIsi, and a bit of time with a NeXT,
my computer is my hobby... it sort of defeats the purpose of a hobby to do
things as quickly as possible.  Sure, more power is fun, but it's far from 
necessary.  And I'd get lost on a 17" screen.  Maybe for this reason, you 
could call me an "average Mac User who wouldn't need a NeXT".  Maybe so, but
a whole lot more people use SEs than use IIfx's.  For the same reason, more
people will use Macs (cheap ones) than NeXTs.

Now, let's get back to Mac discussions, will we?  How about a new newsgroup:
    Comp.sys.mine-is-better-than-yours,
possibly with Mac-PC, Amiga-Mac, Mac-NeXT subgroups.

Dennis Lippert - macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu