Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Publicizing NeXT
Message-ID: <1991May10.054244.13276@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <91124.215239IO92395@MAINE.BITNET> <1991May10.003154.5601@math.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 05:42:44 GMT

In article <1991May10.003154.5601@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

[Quotes comments on an Apple educational arrangement, does not view it as
 pratical for the NeXT( comments with which I agree)]

>I think if a faculty is interested in a NeXT, they should just 
>cough up the $5000 it takes to get a good standalone system.
>If they have any knid of equipment grants at all, that would be
>no big deal. Even if they used their own money it wouldn't
>be that bad.

Hmm...equipment grants are one thing, but paying for it out of a faculty
salary is quite another. Must be nice to be able to afford that.

Philip McDunnough
Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
[my opinions,...]