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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
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Subject: Re: The Fate of the Macintosh
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Date: 25 Mar 91 13:15:40 GMT
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In article <qhcG!c!71@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
      The NeXT is a unix box and I think that you should only compare it with
      another UNIX box.  There  is a lot of difference between a workstation

   WRONG.  Workstations have power, and PC's have a cornucopia of
   friendly apps.  Well, that has all changed.  There are now some
   workstations with friendly apps(about to become plentiful).

Michael's completely right on.  The difference between PC's and
Workstations is fading rapidly.  NeXT and some of the 486 boxes are
the cause (or to blame if for some reason you see this as bad. :-))
-- 
Kevin Kuehl
krk@cs.purdue.edu
kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu