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From: yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
Message-ID: <23034@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 7 Feb 91 06:08:37 GMT
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johnston@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston) writes:
> ...after working with other xwindows type systems, the Next
>doesn't really provide anything new, does it?

NeXTStep is to X windows what System 7.0 will be to, say, MS Windows 1.0.

>  who is going to buy the machine, who is using it??  Other than 
>college students who have some bucks to spend on it....

Hmmm...I bought a Mac SE because I was in college and got a reasonable
deal (for the time) on it:  $2500-$3000 with printer.  The Mac made its
first impact on the educational market, and then desktop publishing.
The NeXT is making it's impact on the educational market (see Wall 
Street Journal, Feb. 1), and is doing well with businesses and govt.
agencies.  

Businesses are particularly attracted to it because it is a great USER
machine (ease-of-use, great interface, sound, and graphics) and it is a
great PROGRAMMER's machine (Interface Builder, Objective-C, the AppKit).

What can you use a NeXT for today?  Let's see...desktop publishing,
revolutionary spreadsheet processing (Improv just shipped), large scale
distributed databases (a rarity on Macs), wordprocessing, music,
software development, multimedia?  What else do you use your Mac for?
Oh yeah, there are some games available for the NeXT, including a
shareware Tetris.  

Young-Kyu Yoo
NeXT Software Developer