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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 4 May 91 02:03:50 GMT
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Quoted from <48297@ut-emx.uucp> by greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp):

> heard from a few NeXT programmers that the IB is basically a requirement
> due to the time it would take to write the code by hand.  However, that is

    Same thing with Windows. If NeXT is dishing this stuff out free with
    their machine, they are a step ahead of Microsoft as far as this sort
    of thing goes.

> That's certainly not the case with the Amiga.

    Naturally. Our interface is a good one.

>        Greg Harp       |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV,
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