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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga/NeXT flames (Was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state...)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 02:54:49 GMT
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In article <> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shepard) writes:
>Tell me please, what is so non-standard about the Unix on a NeXT?  I looks
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>very much like SunOS.  But then I guess Sun has a non-standard port.
>The standard in educational circles is an AT&T port with BSD extensions.
>This is what Sun and NeXT have.  The MACH kernal is not the standard
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>kernal in the industry but it is widely accepted as a very good kernal.

Congratulations upon having answered your own question.

>Oh! Those people could not be wrong.  NeXT is a company worth more than
>$600,000,000 this is actually before they produced a single machine.  Last
>year they made ~$100 million.

Just out of curiosity -- where are you getting your numbers?

I was under the impression that NeXT was a privately held company.
Furthermore, I heard that they had sold only 15,000 of their original
machines.  At ten-thousand a shot, something doesn't add up -- unless,
*gasp* there were 15,000 suckers born last year.  :)


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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