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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IEEE Spectrum Snubs NeXT (and so does Unix Review)
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.003201.17335@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 00:32:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.205235.9415@math.ucla.edu> <14470@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <14470@darkstar.ucsc.edu> isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>In article <1991Apr12.205235.9415@math.ucla.edu> barry@leconte.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>	[about inexcusable omission of NeXT from extensive workstation list.]
>
>Unix Review published a comparison of "under $5,000" Unix workstations.
>  [text deleted  --SJB]
>systems in reasonable amount of time, maybe it's just as well.  Unfortunately,
>the big boys (IBM, DEC, HP, Apple, etc.) know about NeXT and have the personnel
>to catch up in the categories where NeXT excels, so NeXT may lose its window of
>opportunity before the buying public finds out about our "secret".  Very
>frustrating....

     Well, I thought that what we wanted was the general uplift in the
level of the minimum useful system.  That's the sort of thing Steve Jobs
has said from the inception of NeXT, Inc.  The only thing that would be
frustrating would be if NeXT were unable to move another step ahead of
them in order to stay in business and keep raising that minimum level.
>-- 
>                                          _____   ____
>Art Isbell                 |\   |         |    |  |   \   315 Moon Meadow Lane
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>isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU      |  \ |  |___|  |  \    |    |  95018-9442
>(408)438-4736(B)           |   \|  |___   |   \   |___/   (408)335-1154(H)


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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