Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!convex!ewright From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step Message-ID: <1991Feb08.174850.12980@convex.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 17:48:50 GMT References: <1991Feb5.013654.4045@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb8.003934.5763@csn.org> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Distribution: comp Organization: Convex Computer Corporation; Richardson, TX Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: bach.convex.com In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >People who buy SE's want a typewriter. Many people who use >Illustrator, FrameMaker, etc. can afford to buy a NeXT. I hope that >they're not using these programs on a Classic. Let me put this in terms that maybe you can understand. People who buy SEs usually buy them because they can't afford more expensive machines. No matter how many times you and other NeXT bigots say "practically everyone qualifies for an educational discount," it just isn't true. Most people have to work for a living. Even among the small percentage of the US population that is composed of full-time college students, there are many who are not so well taken care of by Daddy Warbucks or Big Brother that they can afford to drop the kind of cash it takes to buy a NeXT. When NeXT users sneer at "people who can only afford to buy a Mac Classic," (i.e., anyone who can't afford to buy a NeXT) perhaps they should ponder whether or not Steve Jobs, back in the days before he sold his first Apple, could have put down that sort of money to buy a NeXT. They might also wonder where the next (no pun intended) Steve Jobs will come from and what sort of computer he can afford to buy today. Simply because someone cannot afford a NeXT does not mean that he is less intelligent than you are, or less talented, or less worthy; it simply means that he has less money. I am not speaking for myself here. I probably could afford to buy a NeXT if I wanted to. But I have no wish to own a machine which exists solely for the snobbish elite. Perhaps if NeXT introduces a true low-end machine (rather its lowest -- read highest -- common denominator), I might change my mind.