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From: claytor@tandem.physics.upenn.edu (Nelson Claytor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac LC or NEXT
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Date: 1 Feb 91 18:10:13 GMT
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Michael Mellinger writes:
> Some people in this newsgroup act
> like PC owners did a couple of years ago(some still do).  "But there's
> more software."  "Does it run Lotus 123?"  "Everyone else uses PC's!"
> "Is it IBM compatible?"  "Will Apple be in business in 5 years?  IBM
> surely will be."  "I hate winodows. I like function keys."

This sort of baiting is a bit absurd. The Mac and the NeXT represent a 
drastic paradigm shift from the PC; the NeXT does not offer a drastic 
shift from the Mac. The NeXT may be faster, it may be cheaper, it may have 
a DSP, but NeXTStep is not a drastic shift from the Mac interface. The 
NeXTs are very nice machines at very good prices (regardless of the fact 
that the NeXTDimension that keeps getting compared with a IIfx/24 bit card 
seems to be vapor for the indefinite future :-)), but they are not really 
so different as to justify a comparison of Mac users with PC users 5 years 
ago. After all, the PC people are *still* defending them, even after the 
Mac has removed all the "no software, no slots, no...." objections :-).

Nelson

Nelson Claytor
claytor@tandem.physics.upenn.edu