Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!samurai From: samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT Message-ID: <1991Jun12.164143.13424@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 12 Jun 91 16:41:43 GMT References: <1709@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 29 In article <1709@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article scd@math.ufl.edu (Steve C Donahue) writes: >>WAKE UP NeXT! Those of us who own your machines know how good they are. >>People wonder why NeXTs have not sold better than they have. Exposure is >>the key to sales. This conference would have been a good place to increase >>your exposure. > >No argument here. Nor here. I had this conversation with my brother who owns an IBM. Me: Boy, you should see the machine I work on at school. Him: What's that? Me: A NeXT machine. Him: What kind of NEC is that? Me: No. A NeXT machine. A NeXTstation. Him: Never heard of NEC making anything like that. Me: NeXT! As in 'next door.' Him: Oh. Never heard of them. Probably a fly by night operation. I'll stick with what I have. But if he ever just SAW the thing, he would fall in love with it. It's kinda like butting a Maserati next to a VW bug. One just LOOKS like it was made to fly. Regardless of what it can actually do. So get out there and inform the public!! Let `em know you have a winner. - db