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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
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Subject: Re: IEEE Spectrum Snubs NeXT
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Date: 15 Apr 91 08:05:37 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.205235.9415@math.ucla.edu> barry@leconte.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>The latest IEEE Spectrum has a special section devoted
>to workstations. In one article, they list a what they
>call "representative sample of available workstations",
>but they snubbed NeXT in their listing.
>(I suppose it is called a sample to avoid offending those left off.)
>
>The list has entries from about 60 different workstation vendors
>(seems pretty comprehensive to me) but they left off NeXT!
>
>This wouldn't be so bad, except that
>
>(a) they had entries for the MacIIfx, the Amiga 3000UA and
                                                      ^
	That SHOULD be Amiga 3000UX.

>    many 80486 MS-DOS boxes---these are ``workstations''?

	One could argue the MacIIfx a bit, but the Amiga 3000UX certainly is
and a good '486 box can be if configured well.
	"Workstation" is really kind of vague term.

	It is possible that the NeXT may have been 'snubbed' simply because 
until recently NeXT wasn't shipping COLOUR.  Colour makes a big difference
depending on your applications, and comparing monochrome stations to colour
ones would seem rather pointless to me.

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